However, Sir Philip has arranged for Roseline to marry Baron Fitzosborne, a wealthy older widower. Albert is a ventriloquist, and the source of all the haunted sound effects. While Sir Philip is away, Roseline, Edwin, and Madeline explore the castle, which they suspect to be haunted, and find a gentleman, Walter, locked in a hidden apartment with his servant Albert. While a student at the convent, Roseline befriends a young novice there, Madeline, and brings her home to Bungay Castle.
Roseline and Edwin De Morney live with their father, Sir Philip De Morney, at Bungay Castle, which is near the convent of Saint Mary's. The core themes of the novel are conservative and pro-monarchic. The novel was published by William Lane's Minerva Press.
Bonhôte's husband purchased the ruins of this castle in 1791. It is set loosely in the thirteenth century around the First Barons' War, and follows the fortunes of the fictional De Morney family at the real Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte, first published in 1797. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms.
Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels-such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide.
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