Ergebnis für "Part 2" in Viktorianisch

Carrie Dobbs and Arnold Bateman have arrived in India. The journey from Bombay to Secunderabad is arduous - hot, uncomfortable, and with little to eat but unfamiliar food. But when she steps over the threshold of the bungalow she and her baby son John are to share with Bateman, she realizes that nothing could have prepared her for the life she is now expected to live.

In 1888, there weren’t many opportunities for a young girl of only 18 to support herself in a place like Galveston, Texas, unless she was willing to compromise her principles. That was why Jessica’s guardian, an old man who had owed her late father a debt, proposes she become a mail-order bride. That and because Jessica wasn’t easy to support. Flaherty, her guardian, had spent a great deal more than what he’d owed her father maintaining her lifestyle. He was tired and ready for someone else to take that burden on.

After Elizabeth falls for a charming and eccentric painter named Aidan, she allows him to take her maidenhood that results in a forced marriage. Now that they are married, the painter has taken her back to his home of Venice, Italy, where he plans to continue painting and incorporate Elizabeth into his life; as it seems he truly does love her, even though the marriage was forced to prevent scandal - or so it seems.