Ross Poldark and Demelza

"A LETTER FROM VERITY"

In Winston Graham's 1953 novel, "WARLEGGAN: A NOVEL OF CORNWALL, 1792-1793", Verity Poldark Blamey had attended the wedding of her widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth Chynoweth Poldark, to banker, George Warleggan.

Since the novel's protagonist Ross Poldark and his wife Demelza Carne Poldark did not attend the wedding, Verity wrote a letter to her cousin-in-law. Below is a passage from that letter:

"I hope Ross is prospering. I need hardly be told the effect Elizabeth’s marriage to George Warleggan will have had on him, and now that they are coming to live beside anda it...