Verena in the Midst

This fictional epistolary novel centers on Miss Verena Raby, who reigns over Old Place, the ancestral home near Kington in Herefordshire, on the borders of England and the Principality which provides us impartially with perplexities and saviors. Miss Raby is one of a family of nine, but none of the others neglect any opportunity of postponing letter-writing. Of these brothers and sisters, all save one—Lucilla, Nesta's mother—are living, or were living when these pages went to press.