] they'll also tell you about Chute's adopted daughter, Caroline, who cried on leaving her family, and had a terribly lonely time in her new home, being terrified by the tapestries (well, they are enormous!), and sleeping in her adoptive mother's unheated bedroom because she was so homesick. Although she sounds very Fannyish..

There is another very interesting story in connction to the Vyne.
About a girl named Hester who was brought up there at about the same time as the adopted Caroline. Caroline Austen(Janes niece) tells about it in her short biographical 'Reminiscences'. And I think this story alone makes it worth reading that book.
It's a tale of beauty,love and sorrow, and of desertion.Her mother
had been deserted by the father(a Captain staying in the town Norwich) before the girl was born. Her mother, who is said to have had an unusual charm and beauty,later died at the Vyne (in the Red room),and the child was taken care of by the Chutes,but not adopted.

The story is also very illumunative I think about the views on women who were unfortunate to have to support themselves by working.

In her teens there was conflict and at one time she ran away.
Caroline A. says the following:"She knew clearly her own condition in life, and that she must be a governess; and she expected she should die early,like her mother,and of the same malady." To end the story. She was sent back to Norwich, she became a governess, she later moved to Scotland and married a good man who loved her dearly. I shall not reveal the end of the story for those who wants read it.

Leif Gn