Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

"Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale" by R. D. Blackmore is set on the landscape of Yorkshire's landscape and sea. The book opens in the year 1801 at Scargate Hall and sets forth the strangely dramatic death of Squire Philip Yordas just after he had made a will disinheriting his son Duncan. Thus Scargate Hall, when first described is the property of Yordas's two daughters, Philippa Yordas and Eliza Carnaby. Mr. Jellicorse, the family lawyer, comes by chance upon evidence of a fatal flaw in the sisters' title to the estate and rides over to acquaint them with this unpleasant fact