Christie Johnstone (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><div> Two parallel romances feature in this 1853 novel.  The first is between a bored aristocrat, Lord Ipsden, who, disappointed in love, retreats to bucolic Scotland, and Lady Barbara, who harbors certain Romantic illusions.  The second concerns a beautiful Scottish fishwife, the eponymous heroine, and Charles Gatty, a talented but unsuccessful painter.</div></div>

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<div><p><b>Charles Reade</b> (1814-1884) was a prolific English novelist and playwright who sought to expose social injustice in his work.&#xa0; He is remembered for the novels<i>The Cloister and the Hearth</i>(1861), a historical romance;<i>Hard Cash</i> (1863), an expose of abuse in mental asylums; and<i>Put Yourself in His Place</i> (1870), about trade-union terrorism.</p></div>

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