Run To Earth by M. E. Braddon
‘Run to Earth’ is a 1868 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published as a serial in The London Journal in 1866. The action of the story starts sometime around 1839, twenty-seven years in the past. This would be in the very early years of Queen Victoria’s reign so the influence of the story is still very much Georgian. The first few chapters are concerned with the robbery and murder of a stubbornly naive, but well intentioned merchant Captain named Valentine Jernam. The identity of the killers and motive for the murder are known to the reader from the beginning, but the rest of the book is ultimately about the consequences of the murder on one character in particular, the primary protagonist, Honoria. The second major plot in the story is the disinheritance of Sir Oswald Eversleigh’s evil nephew, Reginald Eversleigh and his attempts to get his hands on his uncle’s fortune. That’s the easiest way that I can simplify the overall story, as there are several minor interconnected ...
