The Montmarne Girls

By Emma Bawden

At 3.0'clock in the afternoon, on the 21st of March 1642, Elizabeth Montmarne, sixteen-year-old daughter of Lord and Lady Montmarne, of Shrimpton Hall in the County of Sussex, studied the slim back of a young Irish servant girl, intrigued by her beauty and innocence, as she stared out of the window of Robson's Tower, on the lookout for marauding Roundheads, before stepping to her side.

Two Hundred and seventy years later, to the day, almost at the same time on the 21st March 1912, on the eve of the first world war, Alice Montmarne, comes across a girl looking out of the same window of Robson's Tower, admiring the view, who she discovers is to be her newly employed young companion, Anne James, a vicar's daughter from Yorkshire.

These two events, in their similarities, so far apart, have little bearing on each other, apart from the strength and the determination of the two Montmarne girls, not to bow to convention, and to question the very nature of their sexuality and their own existence.

In between, these two events in 1717, Anne Montmarne, the great niece of Elizabeth Montmarne, leaves Shrimpton Manor, during the time of the of the Jacobite uprisings, with the intention of following in her Great Aunt's footsteps.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GLGC6RBD
• ISBN13: 9798246800164
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"