![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the letter Van Ryn invites one of the Wells girls to Dragonwyck, to act as company for his six year old daughter Katrine. Abigail, Miranda's mother, receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn who is Abigail's maternal half first cousin and Patroon of a large manor called Dragonwyck near Hudson, New York. The story begins in May 1844 with Miranda Wells, the daughter of a humble farmer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The novel was adapted into the film Dragonwyck (1946). It is a fictional story of the life of Miranda Wells and her abusive marriage to Nicholas Van Ryn, set against a historical background of the Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars, the Astor Place Riots, and steamboat racing on the Hudson River. Dragonwyck is a novel written by American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1944. ![]()
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