Herminia Barton, clever, beautiful and a clergyman’s daughter, believes marriage enslaves women and will not consent to it. She meets the young barrister Alan Merrick on a Surrey lawn, lives with him openly as his partner and travels with him to Perugia, and the novel follows what Victorian society does to a woman and child outside the law.
A sensation of 1895 and a key New Woman novel, still provocative in its arguments. Download the free EPUB.