“A ghost story wrapped in a Victorian romance and studded with bits of social commentary … Rich with detail and language.”

—Shelly Ridenour, Newcity

“Grange House is the type of book that would be a pleasure to read more than once.”

—Laura Tutor, Anniston Star (Alabama)

“This novel is beautifully written, a real gem.”

—Lori Haggbloom, Kepler’s Books & Magazines, The Book Sense 76

“The language, mores, and class distinctions of nineteenth-century society are faithfully rendered in this atmospheric approximation of a Victorian novel.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Full of Gothic delights.”

—U.S. News & World Report

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to the following works: Harold B. Clifford, Charlie York: Maine Coast Fisherman (International Marine Publishing Company, 1974); Eleanor Motley Richardson, Hurricane Island: The Town That Disappeared (Island Institute, 1989); Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United States, Hellerstein, Hume, and Offen, editors (Stanford University Press, 1981).

I am very grateful to the MacDowell Colony for the time and space given me.

I want to thank Elinor Blake, Melanie Braverman, Alan Brown, Jane Brox, Michael Cunningham, Carolyn Dever, Catherine Havemeyer, Bridget Hughes, Laurie Lindop, Alexandra McGovern, Heather McGowan, Diana Phillips, Claudia Rankine, and Heidi Jon Schmidt for all their comments on various drafts.

My heartfelt thanks to the frank, the supportive, and the funny Leigh Feldman, without whom I would be lost. And enormous thanks for the clear-eyed advice and copious attention of my editors, Reagan Arthur and Doris Janhsen.

And then, there is Joshua Weiner—for whom my thanks are but the smallest part.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blake, Sarah.

Grange House / Sarah Blake.

p. cm.

ISBN 13: 978-0-312-28004-8

1. Summer resorts—Fiction. 2. Teenage girls—Fiction. 3. Storytelling—

Fiction. 4. Maine—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.L3493 G7 2000

813’.6—dc21 00-025912