was serialized in Ellen Wood’s magazine,
The Argosy, from January to December 1873, and was published in three volumes by Richard Bentley and Son that same year. It is a domestic mystery about an upper-class family, featuring common tropes of sensation novels popular at the time, such as murder, secret identities, fraud, and a clandestine marriage.
The novel is set in Greylands, a village on the English coast, featuring a nunnery with an order of sisters, the Grey Ladies, and the Friar’s Keep, the ruins of a monastery said to be haunted by the ghost of the Grey Monk.
The novel is set in Greylands, a village on the English coast, featuring a nunnery with an order of sisters, the Grey Ladies, and the Friar’s Keep, the ruins of a monastery said to be haunted by…
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Citation: Steere, Elizabeth. "The Master of Greylands". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 March 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=207, accessed 23 November 2024.]