"Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye" by Captain Mayne Reid is an early 20th-century romance novel set along England's scenic Wye River, where the spirited Gwendoline Wynn, a fiercely independent young woman, enjoys boating, hunting and friendship, until her idyllic world faces romantic intrigue and peril in equal measure. The story begins with Gwen, admired by her peers, encountering a mysterious angler, Vivian Ryecroft, who stirs feelings within her, while also including a boating excursion that soon turns dangerous for Gwen and her companion, Eleanor Lees, setting the stage for Ryecroft to become a key figure in a thrilling tale of love and threat.
Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye
By Mayne Reid
Amidst the beauty of a river, a fearless young woman's world is upended by forbidden love and looming danger.
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About the AuthorThomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
Thomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
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