Title: The priory
First published: 1939
Description: The setting for this story is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as their lives have been described, the Major proposes marriage to a woman much younger than himself - and many changes begin. -- Publisher.
Subjects: Country life, Fiction, Gentry