title: Maud's Journey: A Life from Art
author: Maud Morgan
description: Maud Morgan was an American modern artist and teacher who is best known for her abstract expressionism. She mentored Frank Stella and Carl Andre, and had art pieces shown alongside such notable contemporaries as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Died in 1999. This is her life story.
zlib_text: _**Her new position**_
  
   _ **As mistress of Pendragon Hall?**_
  
  Unfairly dismissed from her previous position, her reputation ruined,
  governess Maud Wilmot is forced to take on a new identity. When she feels an
  ever-growing attraction to her new employer, Cornish railway entrepreneur
  Dominic Jago, Maud longs to reveal the truth. But doing so could end their
  fledgling romance before it’s truly begun...
  
   _ **She pulled out the letter that she had tucked inside the book of fairy
  tales.**_
  
  The strange address was printed at the top: Pendragon Hall, Land’s End,
  Cornwall. A crest, a shield of three black crosses on gold and a band of black
  in an upward arrow, lay below.
  
   _Dear Miss Wilmot,_  
  _Your acceptance of the situation as governess has been received. Train
  tickets are enclosed. I will expect you at Pendragon Hall at your earliest
  convenience._  
  _Yours sincerely,_  
  _Dominic Jago_
  
  The handwriting was strong and large, the words in black ink across the paper,
  the message curt.
  
   _J