Lady Harman, young, beautiful and kept in luxurious confinement by her husband, a self-made tycoon of bread shops, catches the eye of the literary man Mr. Brumley when she comes to view a country house. Slowly she begins to question her marriage, sympathises with the suffragettes and sets out to do something useful with her husband’s money.
One of Wells’s sharpest novels on marriage and women’s independence on the eve of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.