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"The Forlorn Hope" features the bohemian and turbulent life of a wealthy young man named Ramsay Caird. Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) was a British journalist, novelist and dramatist. His first career was a clerk in the General Post Office, becoming in 1862 head of the missing letter department, and where he stayed until 1872. Meanwhile, he entered journalism, working on the «Court Journal» and then «Daily News», under Charles Dickens. In 1854 he published his first book «My Haunts and their Frequenters», after which followed a succession of novels and plays.

Im idyllischen Seebad Bournemouth macht Mimi Rutherfurt die Bekanntschaft des Industriellen Sir Walter Knight. Er ist in gro?er Sorge um seine Tochter Florence. Die junge Frau – blind vor Verliebtheit – plant namlich, sich mit einem bekannten Hochstapler und Heiratsschwindler zu verloben. Da kommt Mimi Rutherfurt einer geheimnisvollen Verschworung um die junge Frau auf der Spur.