Despite this it is for some time that Ross has unresolved feelings for Elizabeth. Although he did not marry her for love he falls in love with her six weeks afterwards. Gradually reconciled to the loss of Elizabeth's love, four years later Ross marries Demelza Carne, an urchin he has taken in as a servant. Ross attempts to restore his own fortunes by reopening one of the family's derelict copper mines. He is a British Army officer who returns to his home in Cornwall from the American War of Independence only to find that Elizabeth Chynoweth, having told him she believed him dead, is about to marry his cousin Francis Poldark. Ross Poldark is the eponymous protagonist of the series.

In a preface to The Black Moon, Graham explained his decision to revive the series after a two-decade hiatus. Novels Įach of the novels is subtitled A Novel of Cornwall. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published The Black Moon in 1973. Graham wrote the first four Poldark books during the 1940s and 1950s. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799 the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. The novel series was adapted twice for television by the BBC, firstly in 1975 and later in 2015. The first novel, Ross Poldark, was named for the protagonist of the series.

Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002.

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