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Dangerous Ages by Macaulay Rose
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Category: Classics | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
"May I ask your daughter's age?" "Nan is thirty-three." "A dangerous age." Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville celebrating her 43rd birthday and con ...Show more
Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
A Pygmalion-style story told with von Arnim's characteristic wit and charm, this novel introduces us to Salvatia (known as Sally), a much longed-for child to humble shopkeepers. Sally grows up to be an extremely beautiful girl, attracting the attentions of every man who sees her. When her mother dies, h ...Show more
O the Brave Music by D. Smith
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Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
'Sometimes I think that was the happiest day of my life, those hours of heat and silence and colour, along with David high up on the moor. But then I remember that I have said that of many other days, so I cannot be sure.' A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set befor ...Show more
Sally on the Rocks by W. Boggs
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Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampton to find a husband. With some encouragement from the local busybody, she makes a play for Mr. Bingley, the bank manager, although she has a rival in Mrs. ...Show more
Strange Journey by M. Cairnes
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Category: Classics | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform. In this body ...Show more
Tension by E. Delafield
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Category: Classics | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the new Lady Superintendent. But Lady Edna Rossiter, the wife of the college director, Sir Julian, recognizes her name as the woman who broke off an engagement with her cousin. She starts a whispering campaig ...Show more
Which Way by T. Benson
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Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
'There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was shut out. ... Only the fire was alive, consuming its life--for what? Then the door opened and as Claudia came with hurried steps into the fire's glow, two open letters in her hand, the telephone began rin ...Show more
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