Meanwhile, the helpful doctor/boyfriend comes and does his best for Jane. And what she wants is Jane.Įmily establishes a sort of psychic connection with Jane, and manages to control her to the point that Jane heads outside in a violent storm, gets soaked through, and becomes deathly ill. Turns out Emily was a wretched, willful, evil child back in the day, one of those kids who is used to getting what she wants. Meanwhile, Jane wanders about the house and sees Emily's room and Emily's things, and in the garden, she gazes into a reflecting ball and "meets" Emily herself. The young woman falls in love with a young man in the neighborhood (who happens to be a doctor). What I remember about this book is that it featured a young girl named Jane, who is, I believe, an orphan under the guardianship of a fairly young woman, and they head off to a big old house to spend a few months with somebody's grandmother or great-aunt. Isn't that a cheerful, pink cover? You'd be surprised at the the menace hiding behind that happy cover. And since this cover was issued in 1974 (according to my internet research), that means I was 10 when I read it. That's it wearing the cover I remember from when I was a child. Kellyrfineman Continuing my series on books I read (and, more to the point, re-read) as a child, I have to add the Gothic novel that is Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp, about which I've posted before.
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