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The narrator frames her account as her mother's life and its consequences for her own, tracing a journey from the mother's impoverished gypsy origins in Granada through encounters with love, betrayal, lost memory, and social dislocation. Told in episodic, memoir-like chapters, the narrative moves between exotic landscapes, domestic revelations, romantic entanglements, and legal or familial claims on inheritance, culminating in recoveries of identity and return to ancestral home. Recurring themes include maternal influence, dispossession, concealment and revelation, and the tension between wildness and respectability as characters negotiate belonging, loyalty, and social status.

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Title: The heiress of Greenhurst

An autobiography

Author: Ann S. Stephens

Release date: May 24, 2023 [eBook #70851]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: E. Stephens, 1857

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THE
HEIRESS OF GREENHURST.
An Autobiography.

BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS,
AUTHOR OF “FASHION AND FAMINE,” “THE OLD HOMESTEAD,” ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:
EDWARD STEPHENS, PUBLISHER,
126 NASSAU STREET.
1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court, for the Southern District of New York.
W. H. Tinson, Stereotyper,
43 Centre street.
George Russell & Co., Printers,
61 Beekman Street.