![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Matilda-who realizes that her name is actually Emma-faces hunger, homelessness and conscription into child prostitution, as she searches for the mother who gave her up. Searches through London's dirty streets reveal nothing. ![]() Ellin, who tries to determine what happened. Chalfont turns to her enigmatic friend Mr. But Matilda proves to be "no ordinary child"-secretive and prone to fainting spells, she claims to have no memory of her past, other than having been "sold like a farmyard creature." When she runs away, stealing the money still due the Wilcoxes, Mrs. Spurned by the Wilcoxes, Matilda is taken in by motherly Isabel Chalfont, a childless widow whose comfortable station and "middling" temperament conceal a passionate romantic history. But Matilda is a "pseudo-heiress," unrelated to the elegant (and now vanished) gentleman who enrolled her. A young girl named Matilda Fitzgibbon is deposited at a ladies' school run by the "fantastic, affected and pretentious" Wilcox sisters. The result is a deeply satisfying Victorian mystery, at once cozy, witty, didactic and melodramatic. , etc.) uses as the first two chapters of her own sprawling novel. When Charlotte Brontë died in 1855, she left behind a 20-page manuscript, which Irish novelist Boylan ( Holy Pictures ![]()
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