Miss or Mrs.? (eBook, PDF) - Collins, Wilkie
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Short romance drama story.
Fifteen-year-old Natalie is in love with Launcelot, her delightful and adoring cousin, but her loving father is blinded to the villainy of Mr. Turlington, his long time friend and advisor who presses to marry her. Father thinks her objections to the marriage are whimsical, and due to her youthfulness. We see the villainy of Turlington compounded behind the scenes, as he seeks to secure Natalie’s fortune. He is increasingly irked by Launcelot’s ability to light up her smiles, while she remains cold toward himself. The plot thickens wonderfully as we grow in our abhorrence of the villain.
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Short romance drama story.

Fifteen-year-old Natalie is in love with Launcelot, her delightful and adoring cousin, but her loving father is blinded to the villainy of Mr. Turlington, his long time friend and advisor who presses to marry her. Father thinks her objections to the marriage are whimsical, and due to her youthfulness. We see the villainy of Turlington compounded behind the scenes, as he seeks to secure Natalie’s fortune. He is increasingly irked by Launcelot’s ability to light up her smiles, while she remains cold toward himself. The plot thickens wonderfully as we grow in our abhorrence of the villain.

 
Autorenporträt
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, he moved with them to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years, learning both Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After Antonina, his first novel, appeared in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some of his work appeared in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. They also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins gained financial stability and an international following by the 1860s, but became addicted to the opium he took for his gout, so that his health and writing quality declined in the 1870s and 1880s.