VICTORIAN TRILOGY: Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta & A Laodicean (Illustrated Edition)

"Desperate Remedies" – A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady''s maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe''s machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to sup...