Synopsis
'Behind a Mask', or 'A Woman's Power', is a novella by American author Louisa May Alcott. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story is about Jean Muir, governess for the wealthy Coventry family. She appears in the Coventry household to be Bella’s governess on Lady Sydney’s recommendation, but the reasons that she left the Sydney household is cloaked in mystery. Muir, when questioned on this, only hints that young Sydney had fallen in love with her and she left to prevent any foolishness on his part. This increases Gerald Coventry’s already arouse skepticism, which he initially voiced after Muir theatrically fainted and, after reviving, curiously retorted “the last scene shall be still better” to Gerald, in response to his snide comment on the theatricality of the faint.
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À propos de l'auteur
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s.
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