Married life to Nicholas Van Ryn is far from what Miranda imagined. Turner leaves, wondering what caused such a sudden death, Nicholas asks Miranda to marry him. Turner is at Dragonwyck, Johanna becomes violently ill and dies. Van Ryn and Turner instantly dislike each other, and because of his views, Miranda is baffled when Nicholas asks the doctor to attend to his wife, who has a cold. Soon, Miranda encounters kind Doctor Jeff(erson) Turner, a skilled physician and a passionate anti-renter who believes that rich Patroons, like the Van Ryns, should give up their large estates. Nicholas' corpulent and lazy wife, Johanna, sees Miranda as a threat, and tries to keep her from her husband. Not everyone welcomes Miranda to Dragonwyck. After initial doubts, Miranda's parents allow her to go to Dragonwyck where she is instantly attracted to and intrigued by the rich, mysterious and very dashing Nicholas, falling head over heels. In the letter Van Ryn invites one of the Wells girls to Dragonwyck, to act as company for his six year old daughter Katrine. Abigail, Miranda's mother, receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn who is Abigail's maternal half first cousin and Patroon of a large manor called Dragonwyck near Hudson, New York. The story begins in May 1844 with Miranda Wells, the daughter of a humble farmer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The novel was adapted into the film Dragonwyck (1946). It is a fictional story of the life of Miranda Wells and her abusive marriage to Nicholas Van Ryn, set against a historical background of the Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars, the Astor Place Riots, and steamboat racing on the Hudson River. Dragonwyck is a novel written by American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1944.
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