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"A biographical novel of Frances Wentworth, whose husband governed Nova Scotia but could not govern her." John Wentworth was the popular Governor of New Hampshire prior to the Amer ican Revolution. The revolt drove him back to England and all the intrigue of wartime London. Later he returned to North America when he was posted to Nova Scotia. Raddall, who wrote many novels, histories, and short stories around Nova Scotia history and especially the period of the American Revolution, brings these characters and their times to life. Distressed jacket. Otherwise good condition, clean, no marks. Doubleday. 1960. Hb, Dj. USED. $3.00 Show more