Julia Roseingrave

Robert Paye, Marjorie Bowen, John C. Tibbetts

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British Library
01 June 2025

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

'I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company.'

'Very little human company,' she replied.

On a moonlit night, a wearied traveller dressed as the Devil calls at the mossy gates of Holcot Grange. Fleeing some bloody misadventure in London, the stranger claims to be heir to the manor which for generations has remained lordless. But among its benighted tenants the enthralling beauty Julia Roseingrave has been waiting

and now her means of escape has arrived. As whispers of witchcraft echo through the grounds and the boundaries between lord and servant fray, a cursed romance begins to smoulder

and the spectre of death draws near.

First published in 1933, this historical novella of Gothic love returns to print alongside six deliciously dark short tales from the British Library vaults, bubbling with wickedness and the occult.

By: Robert Paye, Marjorie Bowen
Introduction and notes by: John C. Tibbetts
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 58
ISBN: 9780712355322
ISBN 10: 0712355324
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Robert Paye was one of several pennames used by the prolific English author Margaret Campbell de Vere Long (1885-1952), best known today as Marjorie Bowen. Her signature flair for macabre historical drama and the conte cruel form remains unsurpassed.