![]() ![]() She figures if she can corrupt a purely innocent soul, she’ll be clean again, instead of being a miserable bitch that everyone hates. You keep thinking they’re going to rebel against her and come raid the mansion Beauty and the Beast style, but they never do and this plot point doesn’t really come to anything.Īunt Barbe is a sour old cow, and one day over dinner she tells Henrietta how in the olden days they thought that having sex with a virgin would cure you of diseases, and Barbe has the brilliant idea that maybe you could apply this same basic principle to a diseased soul. Aunt Barbe owns a fancy mansion and all the peasant folk hate her. ![]() I guess she isn’t yet ready to leave her life of weird, awkward servitude to her amoral aunt Barbe. ![]() It is a trifle on the nose, and I’d like to make some excuse for Rumer Godden like she was only 33 when this book was published, but you know what, Alexander had conquered the whole Mediterranean by the time he was 33, so no pass for Rumer Godden! Henrietta has a boyfriend but inexplicably refuses to marry him because she - I don’t know why, this is never explained. Yes, the lady’s name is Barbe, and she’s very sarcastic to everybody. Gypsy Gypsy is about this girl called Henrietta who lives with her mean aunt Barbe. Okay, I’m going to ruin the whole plot of this book for your sake to save you from reading it yourself and possibly judging Rumer Godden based on this book which you should not, she is actually wonderful. ![]()
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