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Joshua Haggard's daughter, Vol. 3 (of 3) is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) (1835–1915).
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"Joshua Haggard's daughter, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by M. E. Braddon is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in a Devon coastal town, it blends domestic drama with a sensation-tinged mystery as a Methodist minister’s household is shaken by a clandestine love and a troubling disappearance. The central figures are Naomi Haggard, her austere father Joshua, his gentle young wife Cynthia, and Oswald Pentreath, whose wavering affections ignite jealousy, guilt, and fear. The return of Oswald’s seafaring brother, Arnold, promises reckoning and revelation. The opening of this novel finds Naomi torn between hope and despair when Oswald secretly returns only to hurl a letter—meant for Cynthia—over the garden wall. Naomi intercepts it, discovers Oswald’s plea for a final farewell before fleeing to America, and, in wounded anger, places the evidence in Joshua’s hands. Joshua reseals and plants the letter to test his wife; Cynthia keeps a chaste meeting with Oswald on the common, where they part for ever, while Joshua spies from afar and returns with a look that fills Naomi with dread. Oswald vanishes without boarding the coach; his trunks come back untouched, Joshua’s preaching grows dark and punitive, and the house sinks into joyless routine as months pass without word. Then Arnold arrives, warm-hearted and determined to learn his brother’s fate, learns the engagement is broken, and resolves to investigate, beginning with a visit to Joshua.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Joshua Haggard's daughter, Vol. 3 (of 3)
- Author credits: Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) (1835–1915)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Devon (England) -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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