The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill

by Hall Caine

"The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill" by Sir Hall Caine is a novel published in 1913. Mary O'Neill, a devout Catholic woman raised in a convent, is forced by her father to marry the dissolute Lord Raa despite her misgivings. When the marriage proves disastrous, she falls in love with her childhood friend Martin Conrad, setting off a chain of events involving forbidden love, pregnancy, poverty, and moral crisis that challenges her religious convictions and threatens her very survival.