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Samenvatting van Het fortuin van Frances Kane

van L. T. Meade

  • 8 min. leestijd
  • 10 parts
  • Binnenkort te beluisteren

Frances Kane sells peaches and cabbages to keep her father's house, until a letter from Australia changes her life.

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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd

Leestijd
Ongeveer 3 h 40 min2 h 55 min fast, 4 h 20 min slow
Lengte
52.200 woorden
Bibliotheekniveau
Makkelijk short sentences, plain words

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Het fortuin van Frances Kane in short

These three tales tell of ordinary people who meet a heavy demand and answer it with a steady heart. Frances Kane gives up her freedom and her love to save her father's house. A young Frenchman learns, in a dark cell, to live by the faith his tutor kept.

What Het fortuin van Frances Kane is about

Frances Kane is twenty-eight, walks bareheaded in the June sun, and counts the peaches and pears she means to sell. Her father, the squire of an old house in northern England called the Firs, tells her she was never young. A letter from Australia has already arrived.

This volume opens with Frances Kane's Fortune, a story of duty and love by L. T. Meade. It follows a woman who keeps a failing estate alive and must choose between her father's comfort and the man she has loved for ten years. Two shorter tales follow: a young nobleman befriends a toad in a Paris prison, and a frightened boy fears a murdered horseman in Yew Lane.

Voor wie is het?. Readers who love warm, old-fashioned stories about family duty, quiet courage and love that waits, and who enjoy a good scheme, a brave small animal and a village mystery.

The story in 10 parts

  1. Key idea 1 · free to read

    A practical woman holds a failing house together

    The story opens in a garden, and the garden tells you who Frances is. She is twenty-eight and runs the house, the fields and the servants. Most of all, she runs her father.

    Squire Kane comes from an old family that was once rich. Now nearly all his land is mortgaged. Yet he never spends a shilling without her advice.

    When he learns that little Fluff is coming to live at the Firs, he is delighted. He tells Frances she was never young. She frowns with pain, then asks if the girl's father will pay for her keep. He calls her cold, though her goodness is unnoticed work, taken for granted by the one person who gains most from it.

    Those who quietly carry a household are seldom thanked until they are gone.

  2. 2

    A letter from Australia gives back her youth

    That same day two letters arrive.

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    Philip comes, Fluff dazzles, and a debt appears

    Fluff arrives on the hottest day in years, all curls, dimples and white muslin, with a guitar always at her side.

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    Frances sells her freedom for three hundred pounds

    Frances drives to Martinstown and will not let Philip come with her.

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    Fluff turns schemer to save her cousin

    Frances tells Philip she cannot marry him.

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    Duty and love are weighed against each other

    The central question of the book is stated on the page: the Firs or Frances?

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    A nobleman and a toad in a Paris prison

    The second tale begins in 1779, in a beautiful French chateau.

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    Faith, letters and a last will on a stone

    The Viscount gradually learns what his tutor's life meant.

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    A frightened boy and the ghost in Yew Lane

    The third tale is set in an English village on an autumn afternoon.

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  10. 10

    Two young gentlemen plan a cure for fear

    Bill's trouble comes to the notice of Master Arthur, the rector's son, a tall, merry young teacher.

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Characters, plot and themes

Main characters

  • Frances Kane A capable, quiet woman of twenty-eight who runs her father's estate and hopes to be reunited with the man she has loved for ten years.
  • Squire Kane Frances's vain and comfort-loving father, deep in debt and certain that the Firs matters more than anything else.
  • Philip Arnold A tanned, honest man who returns from ten years in Australia with a fortune, hoping to marry Frances.
  • Ellen Danvers, called Fluff Frances's lively young cousin, who loves her dearly and makes a bold plan to save her from sacrifice.
  • Mrs. Carnegie A rich, fretful invalid who employs Frances as her companion and is cured by being given a noble cause.
  • Monsieur the Viscount A French nobleman, hidden in a Paris prison, who learns faith from his late tutor's example and a toad's company.
  • Beauty Bill A well-liked village boy who is frightened by a tale of a ghost in Yew Lane and needs help to walk home.

How it ends (spoiler)

Philip asks the squire whether he will have the Firs or Frances, and the story says only that everyone knows the answer. In the second tale, the Viscount survives the fall of Robespierre, loses an arm, marries Valerie, and keeps the toad as a friend, stuffed with topaz eyes after its death. In the third, Bully Tom is frightened and beaten, and Bill is cured of his fear.

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What is Frances Kane's Fortune about?

It follows Frances Kane, a capable woman who keeps her father's mortgaged estate going. When her old love Philip Arnold returns from Australia, she must decide whether to give him up in order to protect her father's home.

Who is Fluff in Frances Kane's Fortune?

Fluff is the nickname of Ellen Danvers, Frances's young cousin, who comes to live at the Firs after her mother dies. She is cheerful but afraid of trouble, and she makes a plan to help Frances.

What are the other stories in this volume?

Monsieur the Viscount's Friend is set in a Paris prison during the French Revolution, and The Yew-Lane Ghosts is an English village tale about a boy afraid of a ghost. Each is short and tells a complete story.

Is Frances Kane's Fortune a true story?

No, it is a work of fiction from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. It uses real settings, such as rural England, Australia and Revolutionary France, but the characters and plots are invented.

Is the book easy to read?

Yes, in a good sense: the stories have lively dialogue, short scenes and humor, and each one moves along with clear characters and simple, direct language that suits reading aloud.

Verwijs naar deze uitgave

Meade, L. T. Frances Kane's Fortune. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/frances-kanes-fortune.

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