Starting in 1865 with an infant’s view of the grey men in her bed-curtains, the novel follows Mary Olivier through childhood, girlhood and middle age in a late-Victorian household. Her brothers are favoured, her mother’s love is possessive, and Mary’s hunger for poetry, philosophy and freedom must contend with the duties expected of an unmarried daughter.
Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, a 1919 novel that rewards readers of Woolf and Dorothy Richardson. Download the free EPUB.