The Father and Daughter

On a frozen heath, Agnes Fitzhenry presses a moaning child to her breast and trudges toward the home she once vowed never to leave. “Would to God I had never left it!”

Published in 1801, Amelia Opie’s tale begins in a country town, where Agnes is the cherished only child of a devoted merchant. Then a brilliant officer in the guards wins her trust—and turns her love for her father against him. Fitzhenry sees danger in Clifford; Agnes sees only an unjust obstacle, while Clifford has no wish to marry her. Now the night journey home begins with a child in her arms and a painful reckoning ahead. Can the bond she once believed unbreakable survive what has happened?

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