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    Iona
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    Iona

    By Margaret S. Haycraft

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    Daphne Wardour, at the age of twenty-three, is left an orphan with six younger siblings to care for on a very limited income. Her one strength is her ability as an artist. She meets David Hamilton, proprietor of The Rudder, who helps her find contacts for her art. But can she, the daughter of a colonel, lower herself to illustrate trade circulars and billheads for a tea and coffee merchant? Mr Hamilton has a secret, involving Beatrix de Vaux for whom his father worked. Beatrix is now a renowned poet, publishing her work under the name of Iona. After several years of separation, they are brought together again through Daphne Wardour. But can the problems of the past be erased? A book from White Tree Publishing’s favourite author.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Tree Publishing
    Release dateAug 26, 2018
    ISBN9781912529148
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      Iona - Margaret S. Haycraft

      About the Book

      Daphne Wardour, at the age of twenty-three, is left an orphan with six younger siblings to care for on a very limited income. Her one strength is her ability as an artist. She meets David Hamilton, proprietor of The Rudder, who helps her find contacts for her art. But can she, the daughter of a colonel, lower herself to illustrate trade circulars and billheads for a tea and coffee merchant? Mr Hamilton has a secret, involving Beatrix de Vaux for whom his father worked. Beatrix is now a renowned poet, publishing her work under the name of Iona. After several years of separation, they are brought together again through Daphne Wardour. But can the problems of the past be erased? A book from White Tree Publishing’s favourite author.

      Iona

      Margaret S. Haycraft

      1855-1936

      White Tree Publishing

      Edition

      Original book first published 1903

      This edition ©Chris Wright 2018

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-912529-14-8

      Published by

      White Tree Publishing

      Bristol

      UNITED KINGDOM

      wtpbristol@gmail.com

      Full list of books and updates on

      www.whitetreepublishing.com

      Iona is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this abridged edition.

      Author Biography

      Margaret Scott Haycraft was born Margaret Scott MacRitchie at Newport Pagnell, England in 1855. She married William Parnell Haycraft in 1883 and wrote mostly under her married name. In 1891 she was living in Brighton, on the south coast of England, and died in Bournemouth, also on the south coast, in 1936. She also wrote under her maiden name of Margaret MacRitchie. Margaret Haycraft is by far our most popular author of fiction.

      Margaret was a contemporary of the much better-known Christian writer Mrs. O. F. Walton. Both ladies wrote Christian stories for children that were very much for the time in which they lived, with little children often preparing for an early death. Mrs. Walton wrote three romances for adults (with no suffering children, and now published by White Tree in abridged versions). Margaret Haycraft concentrated mainly on books for children. However, she wrote several romances for older readers. Unusually for Victorian writers, the majority of Margaret Haycraft's stories are told in the present tense, but not this one.

      Both Mrs. Walton's and Margaret Haycraft's books for all ages can be over-sentimental, referring throughout, for example, to a mother as the dear, sweet mother, and a child as the darling little child. In our abridged editions overindulgent descriptions of people have been shortened to make a more robust story, but the characters and storyline are always unchanged.

      A problem of Victorian writers is the tendency to insert intrusive comments concerning what is going to happen later in the story. Today we call them spoilers. They are usually along the lines of: Little did he/she know that.... I have removed these when appropriate.

      £1 at the time of this story may not sound much, but in income value it is worth approximately £120 pounds today (about US$150). I mention this in case sums of money in this book sound insignificant!

      This story was sold in a combined volume of two novelettes by Margaret Haycraft, the other being the title of the volume, The Lady of the Chine. This novelette will be published by White Tree Publishing later in 2018. Unlike The Lady of the Chine, Iona seems to have been either rushed to meet a deadline, or poorly edited in places by the original publisher. For example, names appear later as though they have been in the story all along. These and other minor problems have hopefully been addressed in this White Tree Publishing Edition, without changing the plot or characters in any way.

      Chris Wright

      Editor

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE

      This is a novelette, and there are only 8 chapters in the book. In the second part are advertisements for our other books, so the story may end earlier than expected! The last chapter is marked as such. We aim to make our eBooks free or for a nominal cost, and cannot invest in other forms of advertising. However, word of mouth by satisfied

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