Hugh Scarlett wants to escape a reckless affair with a married woman and begin again with Rachel West, but he has made a pact that may cost him his life. Rachel’s friend Hester Gresley, a gifted novelist living with her narrow-minded clergyman brother, struggles to finish a book into which she has poured herself, in a society that regards both women with suspicion.
An 1899 sensation that skewered clerical complacency and championed the woman artist, still sharp and moving today. Download the free EPUB.