Review: Wicked
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Miss Ralston was an orphan.  Her mother,  Lady Sidwell had run off to marry a parson and they went to Egypt to be missionaries.  Her father disowned her since he did n' t feel she married well.  They died of an illness when she was 4 years old and her grandfather refused to take her but sent her to Miss Peabody' s school.  The new Earl, her grandfather's brother, continued to pay her tuition at the school.  When she was an adult she taught at the school.  Miss Peabody told the 3  teachers who had grown up there and then taught there, that she would leave them something in her will.When she died, the solicitor told them that she provided a dowry and she had picked out grooms for them.  They had nothing otherwise and the school was to be closed and sold.  Miss Ralston was the first to go.  She was going to be wife of an old man who needed an heir before he died.  She went off and this is her story.  Things were not quite as Miss Ralston thought.  She wondered why Miss Peabody would have thought this would be good for her and if she liked her as much as she previously thought.  This is an interesting story. I recommend reading to the conclusion.  I enjoyed it.  I wondered if Miss Peabody knew the parties well enough to understand how it would really turn out.