The Marsh King's Daughter.Elizabeth Chadwick. 1999/2002. Read by Gerri Halligan. 11 tapes. 15 hrs. Clipper clipper, type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. Audio, dist. by Recorded Books. 1-84197-331-9. $91.00. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. SA In Lincoln, the outspoken Miriel Weaver learns the wool trade from her grandfather before she is exiled by her evil stepfather step·fa·ther n. The husband of one's mother and not one's natural father. stepfather Noun a man who has married one's mother after the death or divorce of one's father Noun 1. to a repressive convent in 1216. King John's baggage train is lost in a great tide and quicksand quicksand State in which water-saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the characteristics of a liquid. Quicksand is usually found in a hollow at the mouth of a large river or along a flat stretch of stream or beach where pools of water become partly filled , but Nicholas de Caen, a rebel prisoner, escapes and hides the crown and coins he finds before he collapses near St. Catherine's. Miriel leaves the life of a novice and follows the young man the nuns had nursed back to health. The story of each has many twists and turns before a final reunion, but the title, taken from Aesop, makes this mainly Miriel's story as she fights the oppression many women experienced in the Middle Ages. Murder, sex, war, ransom are presented unflinchingly. The narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. is excellent, her many voices convincing. Maureen K. Griffin, Researcher, Everett, MA |
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