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The Iron Lily

Barbara Willard

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Orphaned in 1557 by the plague and disowned by her brother's widow who claims she is not true kin to the family, fifteen-year-old Lilias begins a life-long attempt to identify her true parentage.

When her mother dies suddenly, Lilias learns that she has no true place in the household in which she was brought up. She turns her back on all she has known, hiding herself as a servant in a manor house. She marries a rough ironworker, who sets his foundry in the Weald - the forest of the southeast. When he dies,Lilias takes over his work and becomes one of the richest women in the forest, It is a time when guns and gunstones can make fortunes, for England's is threatened by Spanish ships.
Long before she has achieved her deepest ambitions, finding her true family, Lilias has learned to survive in a tough world and forged her own identity. She will leave her daughter, Ursula - whose happiness could be destroyed by her mother's ruthlessness - heiress to far more than riches - the amazing secret of Mantlemass, which is already generations old.

Language: English

Pages: 179

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Release: August 02, 1989

ISBN: 0440204348

ISBN 13: 9780440204343

The Iron Lily

Barbara Willard

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Orphaned in 1557 by the plague and disowned by her brother's widow who claims she is not true kin to the family, fifteen-year-old Lilias begins a life-long attempt to identify her true parentage.

When her mother dies suddenly, Lilias learns that she has no true place in the household in which she was brought up. She turns her back on all she has known, hiding herself as a servant in a manor house. She marries a rough ironworker, who sets his foundry in the Weald - the forest of the southeast. When he dies,Lilias takes over his work and becomes one of the richest women in the forest, It is a time when guns and gunstones can make fortunes, for England's is threatened by Spanish ships.
Long before she has achieved her deepest ambitions, finding her true family, Lilias has learned to survive in a tough world and forged her own identity. She will leave her daughter, Ursula - whose happiness could be destroyed by her mother's ruthlessness - heiress to far more than riches - the amazing secret of Mantlemass, which is already generations old.

Language: English

Pages: 179

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Release: August 02, 1989

ISBN: 0440204348

ISBN 13: 9780440204343

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