Is that your point of view?

She even says 'I am not saying that Valentine was not (a premature child)'.

He asked her when George would be back, but she doesn't answer and caused Valentine throw a toy at the floor in anger.Bessie later took Valentine and Ursula to the beach, but he managed to escape and was found by Drake and Morwenna Carne. George is the one to blame for how he turned out - trying to give him material things instead of showing affection.

I do not think he even loved Elizabeth in the way that most couples love each other, and she certainly did not love him. They dismiss the likely sources, including George Tabb, who was known to sleep heavily after drinking heavily, and Agatha who was confined to her room. Because of their natural antipathy, Valentine quite easily pitted Ross and George against each.

Tide was nearly full. And I pity my I think that the dastardly George's abuse of him as a child was at the root of Valentine's 'strangeness' (as Ross called it). Later, Valentine found a picture of Elizabeth and showed a grief-stricken George. Elizabeth knew that she was probably bigger than she should be throughout her pregnancy, and that the child's due date was nearer than she hoped it would be. Valentine Warleggan (14) George Warleggan (13) Elizabeth Chynoweth (8) Demelza Carne (6) Ross Poldark (5) Morwenna Chynoweth (5) Dwight Enys (4) Geoffrey Charles Poldark (4) Caroline Penvenen (3) Cary Warleggan (3) Include Relationships Elizabeth Chynoweth/George Warleggan (9) Demelza Carne/Ross Poldark (4) Dwight Enys/Caroline Penvenen (2) Demelza Carne & Ross Poldark (2) George Warleggan … So yes, Valentine was the victim of a dysfunctional family. I have to wonder whether Valentine was aware of the interest she had shown in Jeremy before she met him? Ever the climbing but never the attaining Of the mountain top." The encounter was short, but Ross acted proud of Valentine and happy to know him. Francis and George watched and wondered who would be fortunate enough to marry her and begin a family, before deciding it \"will always be Ross\". I know we have had many discussions about Valentine's parentage, and whether WG ever spelt it out. But in the next few years, Elizabeth appealed to him and he became convinced again that Valentine was a true Warleggan and both George and Elizabeth's attitude towards Valentine changed for the better.

W.G.Valentine's parentage was one of the most thrilling storylines for me. Also, being such an old lady, she has probably seen many newborn babies in her time, babies being born at home in those days.

Verity the wise and sensible realises the truth along with Demelza with her earthy sense of realism as does Ross, in his heart of hearts, but maybe, the greatest irony is that George, the jealously suspicious and doubtful one, is the only person who eventually ends up believing that his beautiful and fragile, departed wife had told him the truth.
Tide was nearly full. He seemed to get along better with this pet than he even did with any woman.Please I do not have any of the Poldark novels around now,just wondered can I get them through the society.I read them once & loved them.Valentine grows up to be a terrible womanizer.

)Is that your point of view? specifically in the book, it does not specifically say.

Her marriage was failing, they argued and she was begging George to look at her and accept Valentine. George has just gone into Ursula's room where she is being looked after by Polly Odgers, and her wet-nurse. Are you saying that Ross is just an innocent in this whole mess?Many of the things Valentine said, especially in the last book, and during the fire at Place House revealed that Valentine truly wanted to believe that Ross was his biolgical father, since he liked him a lot better, and knew in his heart that Ross was a better person than George. I recall at least two occasions when Ross and George had altercations as a result of Valentine's actions. Geoffrey Charles, like Francis; Valentine growing more like the man who had just left (Ross) and Ursula, who was a true Warleggan.Valentine himself was an oddball.

But Ross was very estranged from the Warleggans and had no dealings with them or want of knowing Valentine.

Plus Poldark’s illegitimate baby Valentine, who had rickets, which Warleggan was treating with ‘darkened rooms, his legs being in splints, and odious tinctures that made him vomit.’
We are given many hints that Ross,  Demelza, and indeed Elizabeth accepted the fact that Ross probably was Valentine's father. In order to hide the truth, she claimed to have "suddenly fallen down the stairs" and went into labour. Then they put two and two together, and possibly made 5. It appears in the paragraphs immediately after Elizabeth has died, so it's hardly surprising that we miss it considering the completely unexpected trauma of learning that Elizabeth will no longer be with us.

Also, Ross and George loved to fight with each other.

I find those pages to be some of the most significant WG wrote. She was concerned he told her that he escaped Bessie, and she asked what George would think.

"standing staring down at the child which was all Elizabeth had left him.