Deerbrook
Author: first_name: Harriet
last_name: Martineau
Language: English
Year: 1839

A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.<br /><br />

Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in one of the loveliest houses in Deerbrook, but a change in their lives is going to take place... The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, orphaned distant cousins of Mr. Grey. Like in Jane Austen's novels, we see how the sisters are try