Kate Worthington Sparknotes

The romantic, fictional novel, Blackmoore, is about a young adult, Kate Worthington, set in the 1820s by Julianne Donaldson. Kate plans on going to India to travel the world with her aunt, but her meddlesome mother does not agree with Kate’s desires. Her mother bargains with Kate that she can go to India if she can reject three marriage proposals. Kate goes the stately manor of Blackmoore to fulfill this deal. Throughout the book Kate begins to find out that she has always loved Henry Delafield, a lifelong friend, and when he proposes to her three times to help her go to India, she finds that he loves her the same, changing her plans. Kate Worthington, the main character, changes throughout the course of the novel. This story depicts, “a young
Kate lives during the 1820s in northern England. Much of this book deals with girls wearing only dresses, riding horses and carriages, and being very proper. Today girls don’t only wear dresses, there are cars and being proper does not describes today’s world. This helps set the tone for this book because it makes Kate a different person, have different feelings and attitudes than if she were placed into today’s world. Kate is cautious and has a high stature but yet in this book is not consider a high status person, but if she were in today’s world she would be place much more highly because of the way she
Henry questions Kate, “Why do you refuse me?” (258) and Kate replies, “I know what loving me will cost you,” (258). Kate loved Henry all her life but knew that he would be better off without her because his family was higher in status than hers. Henry also loved Kate but she would never budge, Blackmoore, teaches the reader that when you desire a good thing that is possible for you to have, take the risk of having it. Good things like love only come so very often, so if there is a risk you have to make, always take the