Katharine Hilbery pours tea in Chelsea and helps her mother with an endless biography of her grandfather, a celebrated poet. Engaged to the fussy man of letters William Rodney, she is pursued by the intense young lawyer Ralph Denham, while Mary Datchet, who works in a suffrage office, offers a glimpse of a different kind of life.
Woolf’s most traditional novel, a comedy of manners with a serious question about what women want from marriage. Download the free EPUB.