A Fair Claimant: Being a Story for Girls. By FRANCES ARMSTRONG. With 8
page Illustrations by GERTRUDE D. HAMMOND. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant,
olivine edges, 5_s._
The heroine of this story is found, when a child, in the attic of
a lodging-house in Chelsea. Her mother has unaccountably
disappeared, and her parentage remains a mystery. She is adopted
by a wealthy lady, and resides abroad until the death of her
benefactress. Thereafter, Olive Bethune comes to England as a
governess, and it is then that she begins to learn her own strange
history. It is a tale of surprising vicissitude, which is slowly
unravelled with happy skill, but in the end all the wrongs are
pleasantly righted. The interest of this narrative never for a
moment flags, because the character of the heroine is as
fascinating as the mystery of her birth.
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