Lovel The Widower (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): And Other Stories and Sketches

A governess must hide her scandalous past as an actress in 1860’s Lovel, which Thackeray based on his 1854 play The Wolves and the Lamb. “The most overtly theatrical work we have from one of the 19th century’s most theatrical writers.”—Anne Layman Horn, Victorian Literature and Culture.