The Lady of Blossholme, by H. Rider Haggard
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The Lady of Blossholme, by H. Rider Haggard
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Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it east and south, and to the west by the rolling uplands, merging at last into purple moor, and, far away, the sombre eternal hills! Probably the scene has not changed very much since the days of Henry VIII, when those things happened of which we have to tell, for here no large town has arisen, nor have mines been dug or factories built to affront the earth and defile the air with their hideousness and smoke.
The Lady of Blossholme, by H. Rider Haggard- Published on: 2015-06-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .46 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 146 pages
About the Author Haggard was an English writer, colonial administrator and novelist. He travelled extensively and most of the settings in his novels are borrowed from these travels. The native population of the British colonies is treated sympathetically in his works.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. HENRY DOES HENRY By s.ferber "The Lady of Blossholme" was Henry Rider Haggard's 34th piece of fiction, out of an eventual 58 titles. It is a novel that he wrote (or, to be technically accurate, dictated) in the year 1907, although it would not see publication until the tail end of 1909, and is one of the author's more straightforward historical adventures, with hardly any fantasy elements to speak of. The story takes place in England during the reign of Henry VIII, in the year 1536. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were consequently rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterell's father and tries to claim all the family's lands and jewels. And what a hell this religious zealot puts poor Cicely through. She and her foster mother, Emlyn, are incarcerated in a nunnery and later tried as witches. Cicely's husband is conked on the head and shipped overseas, and a murderous midwife is sent to do away with Cicely's new baby. Before all can be put to rights, and our heroine and her husband are reunited, Cicely and her few friends must seek an audience with no less personages than Thomas Cromwell and King Henry themselves.Anyway, that's the story in a nutshell. But what a detailed, densely written, fast-moving and action-packed story it is! The Abbot Maldon--a holy man using evil methods to achieve his dubious ends--is one of Haggard's more interesting villains, conflicted mess that he is. The character of King Henry here is revealed by Haggard to be a wise, brooding, decent, harried and coarsely jovial person, and Cromwell, too, avaricious as he may have been, is shown in a decent light. Unlike many of Haggard's other historicals, this one, as mentioned, features hardly any fantasy elements, unless one can count Lady Cicely's visions of angels, and Emlyn's contacting of her swain, Thomas Bolle, by nighttime dreams, as fantasy. Like several other Haggard novels that I've read recently, such as "Swallow" (1899) and "Red Eve" (1911), this book uses the plot device of newly married/engaged lovers forced to separate for long periods of time, and fighting near insuperable odds to reunite. And like those other titles, "The Lady of Blossholme" can serve as a fun history lesson for readers. I personally knew nothing of the Pilgrimage of Grace before opening this book, just as I knew little of the Great Trek before reading "Swallow" or the Battle of Crecy before getting into "Red Eve." What an excellent way to acquire a knowledge of a specific historical time and place! Haggard has really done his homework here, and his use of language and scenic description are extremely convincing. The average reader may require an UNabridged dictionary to assist with some words here and there (such as "gralloch," "grieve," "durance," "pleasaunce," "byre" and "wain"), but for the most part, Haggard, expert storyteller that he always was, keeps the reader flipping those pages. (I just read the cute litte Tauchnitz edition of this book from 1909, as I still prefer to flip a page than click a mouse!) Although perhaps one of the more obscure titles in the Haggard canon, "The Lady of Blossholme" is well worth a reader's time. With memorable characters, a unique setting, a different kind of Haggardian villain, several interesting Haggardian sidekicks, and a healthy dose of red-blooded action, the novel is a real pleaser. And, to top it all off, it concludes with one of the most satisfying final sentences ever. Don't peep ahead! Just trust me on this one, okay?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. a pretty good read! By sammitwizzle79 without giving anything away, this story is basically about an evil abbot and the bad stuff he does to this family. pretty easy to read and understand, good plot throughout. i enjoyed it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gift for friend By LittleFoot I ordered this for a friends kindle. She must have liked it as she is an avid reader and I've not heard otherwise. There are many kindle free editions of books and its nice, in this economy, to have access to reading material that is free. Thanks, Amazon, for this service..
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