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Title	:	Mistress of Mellyn
Author	:	Victoria Holt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	1960 by Readers Digest
Categories	:	Romance. Gothic. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Romance. Gothic Romance

Mistress of Mellyn

Victoria Holt

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 7974 Users | 518 Reviews

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Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned... But what about its master--Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her.

TreMellyn's young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil--even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha's life.

Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets--as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love--and the freedom to find a golden promise forever...

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Original Title:	Mistress of Mellyn
ISBN:	0449019942 (ISBN13: 9780449019948)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gilly, Martha Leigh, Connan TreMellyn, Alvean TreMellyn, Mrs. Polgrey, Celestine Nansellock, Peter Nansellock, Linda Treslyn, Alice TreMellyn
Setting:	Cornwall, England(United Kingdom)

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2.5 Stars This happen to be one of those books with great writing that pulls one in, but not enough substance to truly make it shine. For a Gothic romance it had the spooky house, strange happenings and the broody hero. That was about it. Most of the events were pretty much everyday things, with a few clues drops from time to time, but not enough to figure out what happen to the wife who all of a sudden- up and took off with the local man-hoe and then was killed. The clues that were dropped

Gothic Mystery set in Cornwall with a Wonderful Love StorySet in Victorian England in Devon, Cornwall, this is the story of Martha Leigh (Miss Leigh) who, at 24, comes to Mount Mellyn to become the governess to widower Connan TreMellyns young daughter, Alvean. After all, whats an educated woman with no parents and no prospects to do?Miss Leigh soon discovers that Alvean is spoiled, hard to manage and suffering from too little of her father's attention, which might explain the departure of the

This novel is going for Jane Eyre meets Rebecca, but it never quite gets there. Decent storyline, but difficult for me to really connect with the characters.

I read a lot of Holt in my teens, then they started to feel both gloom laden and like they had come off a production line, so I stopped. I reread another favourite and while I didn't love it so much this time round, I rounded the book up to 4★ for old times sake. The Mistress of Mellyn, the first Holt I read (although I had read plenty of her Jean Plaidy titles) and the first one she wrote, has stood the test of time and I am happy to award 5★.This books succeeds in so many areas, the

A hybrid between Jane Eyre and Rebecca though not even remotely as good as either. Holt should have worked on her descriptive skills. I do always appreciate when a book teaches me a new architectural term, like lepers' squint. "The leper's squint was a type of hagioscope, a window set at an oblique angle in a church wall to permit people to see the altar from areas where it was not otherwise visible." (tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com)

3.5 (for Retro Reads)There are two courses open to a gentlewoman when she finds herself in penurious circumstances, my Aunt Adelaide had said. One is to marry, and the other to find a post in keeping with her gentility.Id never heard of Victoria Holt but this gothic romantic story was full of suspense. The plot follows the well-known plight of the governess, having to find a position to survive, finding such role only to realise that all is not as it seems. Martha Leigh, vicar daughter with no

Mistress of Mellyn is one of Victoria Holt's old gothic romantic suspense novels, published in 1960. It's the quintessential "governess in peril falling in love with someone above her station" plot. It's a pretty good, old-fashioned novel of its type, one of the better Victoria Holt novels I've read here and there over the years.Martha (Marty) Leigh is an impoverished gentlewoman forced to become a governess due to her circumstances. She takes a job in Cornwall, a corner of England that, I was