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The Unforgotten
Dust jacket design by Walter Harper. Her third book.
178 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1967
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Laura Conway
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Dorothy Phoebe Ansle Keogh wrote under the pennames Hebe Elsna, Vicky Lancaster, Lyndon Snow, and Laura Conway.
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Dorothy Phoebe Ansle Keogh wrote under the pennames Hebe Elsna, Vicky Lancaster, Lyndon Snow, and Laura Conway.
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November 25, 2021
The Unforgotten by Laura Conway, 1967
A novel of Gothic Suspense! Sort of. We begin with Ann Dominic who lives in an old mansion belonging to her family for several generations. She shares it with her widowed mother Cynthia and her sister Jenny. Ann is a writer, she supports her family and is currently working on a biography of a distant relative, an Annis Dominic. Ann gets a phone call from an old beau with whom she had a terrible falling out. As she comes down the stairs she falls and is in a coma for a few days during which time she has an uncanny experience of a sort of 'time travel' making contact with Annis exactly one hundred years in the past. In her time Annis also hits her head and also has contact with Ann. The story moves VERY slowly. There are many similarities between Annis and Ann. They are both writers, Annis having published a very risque novel for her time. Both women have tragic love affairs, both women have relatives who are determined to marry for money (as all well brought up ladies in those days aspired to). As the plot meanders along we learn that the author has borrowed heavily from Jane Eyre, but pulls it off by having all the loose plot threads resolve themselves happily in the end. The old fashioned notions and writing style in this novel are fairly understandable given the author was born in 1890! Her ideas of scandalous and a more modern definition are very different! I'm giving this cute and very chaste romance novel a solid 3/5 stars.
The author's real name is Dorothy Phoebe Ansle, born 27 July 1890 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, UK. In 1928, she published her first novel, under the penname of Hebe Elsna, she also wrote under the pennames Vicky Lancaster, and Lyndon Snow. She published more than 200 novels, mainly romance and dramatic novels or novelized historical biographies, under different pseudonyms and titles. She died on 7 January 1983.
A novel of Gothic Suspense! Sort of. We begin with Ann Dominic who lives in an old mansion belonging to her family for several generations. She shares it with her widowed mother Cynthia and her sister Jenny. Ann is a writer, she supports her family and is currently working on a biography of a distant relative, an Annis Dominic. Ann gets a phone call from an old beau with whom she had a terrible falling out. As she comes down the stairs she falls and is in a coma for a few days during which time she has an uncanny experience of a sort of 'time travel' making contact with Annis exactly one hundred years in the past. In her time Annis also hits her head and also has contact with Ann. The story moves VERY slowly. There are many similarities between Annis and Ann. They are both writers, Annis having published a very risque novel for her time. Both women have tragic love affairs, both women have relatives who are determined to marry for money (as all well brought up ladies in those days aspired to). As the plot meanders along we learn that the author has borrowed heavily from Jane Eyre, but pulls it off by having all the loose plot threads resolve themselves happily in the end. The old fashioned notions and writing style in this novel are fairly understandable given the author was born in 1890! Her ideas of scandalous and a more modern definition are very different! I'm giving this cute and very chaste romance novel a solid 3/5 stars.
The author's real name is Dorothy Phoebe Ansle, born 27 July 1890 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, UK. In 1928, she published her first novel, under the penname of Hebe Elsna, she also wrote under the pennames Vicky Lancaster, and Lyndon Snow. She published more than 200 novels, mainly romance and dramatic novels or novelized historical biographies, under different pseudonyms and titles. She died on 7 January 1983.
June 9, 2009
A rather straightforward romance with few surprises. Its primary charm lies in Ann's gradual discovery of Annis' knowledge of her--living one hundred years after Annis--and the search for Annis' journal. I think the story Ann reads about Annis is more interesting than Ann's--even though we get to read so little of it!
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