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What is an ancient family name worth when keeping it may cost love, comfort or honour?
In Anthony Hope’s Tristram of Blent, an old English house holds more than family possessions. Blent carries a name, a history and a claim on the people who belong to it. For the central figure, Tristram, identity and inheritance raise a difficult question: what does a name really mean?
This romance explores a landed family’s world, where property brings duty and pride can bind as tightly as love. Hope turns from distant adventure to the pressures of home and family. Honour matters here, but acting honourably can mean surrendering comfort, love or advantage. What should a person be willing to give up?
What you’ll discover
- An ancient house Enter Blent, where a family home shapes the lives and duties of those within it.
- The weight of inheritance Consider what it means to receive not just property, but obligations tied to a family name.
- A name under scrutiny Follow Tristram into questions of identity that reach beyond what a person is called.
- Honour at a cost Weigh the pull of love and comfort against the demands of an honourable choice.
- Hope’s quieter side Discover a romance rooted in English family life, strong feeling and the pressures of belonging.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you like family secrets, English country houses, sharp social comedy and a love story full of pride, wit and stubborn characters.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Mistaken Date Starts Everything
- A Boy Raised to Guard the Secret
- The Imp Rents a House Across the River
- Mischief Turns Into a Real Threat
- A Dying Mother and Reluctant Allies
- Cecily Arrives and Blent Takes Her Side
- Starting Over in London
- A Strange Offer and a Beastly Viscounty
- Blood, Law and the Tristram Way
Who’s who
- Harry TristramProud, watchful heir of Blent who has guarded a secret about his birth since boyhood and loves the house above all else.
- Addie TristramBeautiful, careless Lady Tristram, whose elopement and tangled marriage history cause the trouble, and whose charm lingers after her.
- Cecily GainsboroughPoor, lively cousin from a tiny London house who walks and speaks exactly like Addie and falls in love with Blent.
- Mina ZabriskaThe Imp, a clever, mischievous widow who meddles, then becomes fiercely loyal to the Tristrams.
- Jenkinson NeeldTimid, scrupulous editor of Cholderton's journal who finds himself keeping a secret that tests his conscience.
- Major DuplayMina's vain, ambitious uncle who courts Janie Iver and sets out to prove Harry's secret.
- William IverShrewd, self-made builder at Fairholme who wants his daughter to marry well and respects ability.
- Janie IverWarm, sensible heiress who cannot decide among Harry, the Major and her old friend Bob Broadley.
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Tristram of Blent
by Anthony Hope · 1901
One mistaken Russian date leaves Harry Tristram guarding a secret about his birth at the family's ancient house.
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What if a single wrong date could take away a man's name? In Tristram of Blent, Anthony Hope begins with an old diary and a calendar mix-up in Russia that leaves a proud young heir with a dangerous secret.
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A Mistaken Date Starts Everything
The story opens in London, where the fussy editor Jenkinson Neeld is preparing the journal of his late friend Josiah Cholderton. One passage describes Heidelberg in 1875 and a beautiful, careless young woman who cries out that her first husband is dead and that she can marry again in time.
The trouble lies in the calendar. The letter that brought the news used the Russian Old Style, twelve days behind England and Germany. The diary suggests that the wedding comes a day too early and the boy is born outside a lawful marriage. Neeld sees at once whom the entry concerns, because he checks the peerage and finds Lady Tristram of Blent and her son Harry.
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What is Tristram of Blent about?
It follows Harry Tristram, heir to an ancient Devon estate, who guards a secret that could cost him his name and home. A cousin, a meddling neighbor and a diary all threaten it.
Who is the Imp in Tristram of Blent?
The Imp is Mina Zabriska, a small, clever widow. As a child in Heidelberg she was nicknamed the Imp by Josiah Cholderton. She later rents Merrion Lodge near Blent and becomes tangled in the Tristrams' affairs.
Why does the Old Style calendar matter in the story?
Russia used the Old Style calendar, twelve days behind England and Germany. The dates lead Addie Tristram to believe her second marriage comes too soon. That belief sets the whole plot going.
The author
Anthony Hope
1863–1933 · English novelist
Anthony Hope was the pen name of Anthony Hope Hawkins, an English novelist born in London in 1863. He worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), Rupert of Hentzau (1898), and Tristram of Blent (1901). He died in Surrey in 1933.
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