At a girls’ school in England, the gifted and charismatic mistress Clare Hartill draws the young teacher Alwynne Durand into an intense, possessive friendship. As Clare’s emotional hold tightens over Alwynne and over the pupils who adore her, the novel studies the cost of a life lived wholly among women and in the shadow of one powerful personality.
A bold first novel of 1917, notable as an early English depiction of a lesbian attachment. Download the free EPUB.