Forty-year-old Alwyn Egremont seduces Alice, an 18-year-old nursery governess, in his brother's employ.
Scared he will lose his inheritance for doing so, Alwyn denies the affair and abandons her and their unborn daughter, Nuttie.
When the supposedly dead Alwyn Egremont appears on Aliceâs doorstep some 17 years later, Nuttieâs life is changed forever.
Taken from her childhood home, she must adapt to a new life. But can Nuttie overcome her motherâs blind devotion to a destructive Alwyn and her own resentment of her absent father?
âNuttieâs Fatherâ (1885) is a romantic novel that will delight any reader interested in Victorian literature.
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include âHeartseaseâ, âThe Daisy Chainâ, âThe Young Stepmotherâ, and the commercially successful âThe Heir of Redclyffeâ (1853).
Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of âThe Monthly Packetâ magazine, while her book, âHistory of Christian Namesâ, is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.