Mistress of Mellyn | Characters
Martha Leigh narrates the story from a distance of many years. She introduces herself with a physical description and a brief version of the "prescribed formula" that brings her to a position as governess in an unknown family in an unfamiliar part of the country. She is a "gentlewoman" in "penurious circumstances." Having failed to marry by the age of twenty-four, a governess's position is her only other option. Martha describes herself as plain, with brown eyes that she has been told are "too bold." And she does have a bold personality. Even on the train journey to her duties in...
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