Countess Kate

Countess Kate is a little girl who at the opening of the story springs to the style and dignity of the Countess of Caergwent, from the humble position of plain Kate Umfraville, an orphan dependent for protection and education on her charitable uncle, Mr Wardour, who is the clergyman of St. James's, Oldburgh.
On her elevation to the peerage, Kate is taken from the country parsonage, and brought to London, where she is placed under the charge of two excessively decorous old-maid aunts, Ladies...