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The priory

Dorothy Whipple

1939528 pagesabout 8–12 hours
1939
first published
  • 1939Longmans, Green · ENG
  • 1939J. Murray · 528 pages · ENG
  • 1939The Macmillan company · 528 pages · ENG
  • 1941Murray · ENG
  • 1979Remploy · 528 pages · ENGISBN 9780706608076
  • 2003Persephone Books · 536 pages · ENGISBN 9781903155301

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.

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