This is the external plot, but its morals are of discerning truth and untruth and appearances from reality the true plot is Maud’s confusion about whom to trust and whom to distrust and what to keep secret and what to reveal. Lambert forgives Maud and offers Maud the loving home that she has so desperately wanted.
Lambert comes to realize that Maud has reminded her of her daughter, Caroline, and Mrs. Lambert despises Maud along with the sisters who have conned her but Mrs. Maud escapes and stumbles away from the burning house, and in exchange for her honesty, is helped by the owner of a carousel that both Caroline and now Maud have become fond of riding.Īt first Mrs. Lambert flee, leaving Maud locked in a cabinet behind. Lambert, Caroline’s grieving mother, whom she begins to like despite herself, and whom she begins to feel guilty for conning.ĭuring a séance, an accidental fire destroys the Hawthorne’ house. Maud lives as a “secret child” with the sisters and is asked to take part in their séances, acting the role of one particular child, Caroline Lambert. That in itself is a pretty good review.Ī Drowned Maiden’s Hair is written from the point of view of Maud Flynn, an orphan adopted by three spinster sisters, the Hawthornes, who hold séances for rich patrons to maintain their lifestyle. I bought it for a graduate course, quit the class, then read and finished the book despite.
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama is a historical fiction with elements of magical realism by Laura Amy Schlitz and is outside of my usually indulged fantasy genre.
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