Издания и произведения

First published in 1949, Mary Wakefield is the third in the series chronologically, set back in the 1890s. The title character is the governess of Renny and Meg Whiteoak. She falls in love with their widowed father, but the couple must overcome the obstacle of his overbearing mother who does not want her son to remarry.

In Mary Wakefield , the third book in the Jalna series, a young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip’s motherless children. When Philip falls in love with her, his mother does all she can to prevent the marriage.