Taquisara: Volume 1

Francis Marion Crawford

Jan 1896 · London : Macmillan

About this ebook

"As wealthy Italian princess Donna Veronica, young and unmarried, signed her will leaving her entire estate to her aunt, her late father's sister and her closest living relative, the princess braced herself for the cold and unfeeling words of gratitude expressed by the aunt. The princess didn't believe she needed a will because of her young age but finally relinquished to her aunt's daily demands for the will to be signed..."--Fantastic Fiction website.

About the author

F. Marion Crawford was born on August 2, 1854, in Bagni de Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. He was the son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford. He was educated by a French governess; then at St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.; in the quiet country village of Hatfield Regis, under an English tutor; at Trinity College, Cambridge, where they thought him to become a mathematician; at Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, and at the University of Rome, where a special interest in Oriental languages sent him to India with the idea of preparing for a professorship. He spent a short time as a newspaper editor there. His first novel, Mr. Isaacs, was published in 1882. During his lifetime, he wrote over forty novels and one play, Francesca da Rimini. His novels include Dr. Claudius, A Roman Singer, A Cigarette Maker's Romance, The Witch of Prague, The Heart of Rome, and The Diva's Ruby. He died on April 9, 1909.