Johnny Ludlow, Second Series

'Johnny Ludlow, Second Series' is a Victorian romance novel by Henry Mrs. Wood. Written in first person, the novel revolves around a man named Johnny Ludlow who lived with the Todhetleys. Mrs. Todhetley, the Squire's present wife, was his stepmother, with his father having married her after Johnny's own mother's death. After his father's death—which took place speedily—she became the second wife of Squire Todhetley, and the stepmother of his only son and heir, Joseph. Two children were subsequently born to them, Hugh and Lena, to whom Joseph was of course half-brother. Joseph, unlike myself, had been old enough to resent the advent of a stepmother when she came. Indulged and haughty, he did not like the gentle control she brought; though she was good as gold, as loving to him as he would let her be, and kind to everybody