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What is Mariamne about?

The daughter of a well-to-do English family, much loved and delicately nurtured, a promising student at an exclusive ladies' finishing school, Mariamne Jenkins seems secure in a comfortable future. When her father abruptly summons her home to Cumbria to assume responsibility for the household, in vew of her mother's protracted illness, she looks forward to presiding at the dinner table and keeping her dear Papa company during the long and lonely evening hours. The delights of domesticity soon begin to wane, however, and Mariamne becomes embroiled in a deeply sensual relationship with the handsome and alluring Simon Tufnell, a clerk clearly beneath her social station of whose low birth her family would not approve.But even as Mariamne pursues her secret lover, she encourages the honorable intentions of William Rowlands, a childhood friend and neighbor. While Mariamne keeps Simon permanently in her thrall through her passionate, sensuous letters, she at the same time lures the very proper Mr Rowlands into asking for her hand. Deftly she courts alternately her lover and her fiance until, with Simon threatening blackmail and a suitable marriage hanging in the balance, Mariamne is force

Author

Glen Petrie

Publisher

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698107694

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24