Mehalah (Annotated)

Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes is a darkly atmospheric Victorian novel set among the tidal flats, sea-walls, and isolated communities of the Essex coast. Its plot turns on the fierce independence of Mehalah Sharland, called "Glory," and the destructive obsession of the brooding Elijah Rebow. Baring-Gould fuses regional realism with Gothic melodrama, rendering the salt marshes not merely as b...