Inside the story
Meet The Uncle
The children's bachelor guardian lives in London and hires a young governess to care for his niece and nephew at Bly. He sets one strict condition: she must never trouble him about the children, so he remains an absent, longed-for figure throughout the household.
On the page
A rich, fearfully extravagant bachelor in a glow of high fashion, good looks and charming manners; an elegant gentleman of the town in expensive attire, master of a great London house full of the spoils of travel and the trophies of the chase.
