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Reading Report on The Landower Legacy The novel The Landower Legacy, written by a famous English writer Victoria Holt, is a romantic and famous masterpiece. The version I have read was twelfth printing by Ballantine Books in 1991. I. About the Author Victoria Holt(September 1, 1906- January 18, 1993), famous novelist describing the old castle. Victoria Holt, her original name is Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert. She was born in London, during her fifty years of writing, there are more than 150 novels published. In her novels, she always use old castle as background, in everyone’s impression, old castle in England, always related with suspense strongly. Victoria Holt says, Never regret. If its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience. Since now, Victoria Holt has created a large number of love stories, main works, such as Mistress of Mellyn, The King of the Castle, The Queen’s Confession, The Landower Legacy. Popular fiction belongs to her special style. 1960, she wrote Mistress of Mellyn. It mainly introduced that Martha Leigh and her sister has a happy childhood, but after their parents death they go to live with an aunt. They have a season and Marthas sister manages to find a good husband. But Martha doesnt, and is forced to take up the job of a gove. 1962, she wrote Kirkland Revels. Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress. To some there was an atmosphere of evil about the place, but to innocent young bride Catherine Rockwell, the mansion seemed magnificently romantic. She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls. Or that at the moment she had entered her new home, she had crossed the threshold of terror. 1963, she wrote Bride of Pendorric. Favel Farington knew very little about her new husband. When they met in Capri, the dashing young heir to Pendorric had swept the lovely English girl into marriage with the sudden fierceness of a summer storm. It was a