The Sherwood Ring

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name = The Sherwood Ring
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author = Elizabeth Marie Pope
illustrator = Evaline Ness
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language = English
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genre = Young Adult
publisher = Houghton Mifflin
pub_date = 1958
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 272 pp (1958 Hardcover edition), 256 pp (paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 978-0618177370 (2001 Hardcover edition)
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"The Sherwood Ring" is a 1958 young adult novel by Elizabeth Marie Pope.

It tells the story of Peggy Grahame and how she is forced to relocate to her uncle's estate when she is orphaned. Along the way she meets the ghosts of many characters from the Revolutionary Period. A charming fantasy novel with a great ending.

Plot summary

When seventeen year-old Peggy Grahame's father dies, she has no choice but to reside in the home of her only remaining relative, her uncle Enos. She journeys to her family's ancestral estate, "Rest-and-be-thankful," in New York state, and soon finds her uncle to be an eccentric and rather crochety man who is obsessed with his family's history. While Peggy strikes up a tentative friendship with a young British man called Pat, who is doing some research in America, her uncle is quick to forbid the two from seeing each other. Peggy is forced to spend much of her time alone in the large, Colonial house, and soon discovers it to be haunted by the ghosts of her eighteenth-century ancestors and their contemporaries. The ghosts relate their stories in first-person narratives throughout the book which are interwoven with the narrative of the present day. With the help of the ghosts' stories, Peggy is able to unravel a centuries-old family mystery and win the affection of her uncle.

Characters in the Present Day

Peggy Grahame
Enos Grahame
Pat Thorne

Characters in the Past

Richard Grahame
Eleanor Shipley
Barbara Grahame
Peacable Drummond Sherwood