![]() ![]() The deal is that Bessy must keep the house, cook the meals, help out wherever needed, but most importantly keep a diary. On discovering she can read and write, Arabella Weir (said mistress) hires Bessy on the spot as her house keeper/maid/general factotum. She has dreams of marrying ‘a young nobleman or prince’, and so turns off the road, helps catch an escaped pig, and catches the eye of the mistress of the ‘castle’ (actually a run-down country house). ![]() On the road, her head is turned, literally and metaphorically, by a sign pointing to Castle Haivers. Keen to avoid slipping back into life with her drunken prostitute mother, she sets off from Glasgow to Edinburgh to seek her fortune, without even a coat on her back. The kindly old gent who was ‘keeping’ her has died unexpectedly, and she’s been run off by his brother. Teenage Bessy Buckley is down on her luck. ![]()
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