![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mrs Gereth is a strong, opinionated and obsessive character, who places her own interests before all others. In the end they are all caught out by what they don’t say, and Mona gets her man and the spoils. Much of the book concerns the battle to return them, in which Fleda acts as go between for Mrs Gereth and Owen. Mrs Gereth steals the spoils and installs them in Ricks. Fleda refuses to be with Owen until Mona has released him. The young people do fall in love but only reveal this after Owen’s engagement to Mona. Mrs Gereth tries to get her son to marry Fleda so that her possessions will be in the care of someone who appreciates them. Her young friend Fleda also appreciates the finer things in life and is seen as a hanger-on by others. When he becomes engaged to the unappreciative Mona Mrs Gereth must leave the house and its contents and live in a maiden aunt’s cottage, Ricks. But when she is widowed all is left to her son. Mrs Gereth had spent her adult married life acquiring and loving the contents of Poynton. It’s a tightly plotted exploration of a widow’s obsession with the contents of the grand house called Poynton, and of the dilemmas encountered by her young friend, Fleda Vetch, when Mrs Gereth steals her former belongings. This novel was first serialised and then published as a book in 1897. ![]()
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