Daughter of Fortune | Rose Sommers

Rose Sommers is Jeremy and John's sister. She has a love affair with the Austrian tenor Karl Bret-zner, a married man, while she lives in London. She spends the rest of her life taking care of Jeremy, who remains a bachelor.

When Rose is twenty years old, she takes in a baby girl, whom she names after her mother. She suspects that the baby is a child of her brother John, but she does not confront him with this fact until the end of the story. She lives vicariously through Eliza, doing all that she can to help the young child grow up and find a successful husband. She rarely...

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