Presented as the real letters of an unnamed woman to her lover, printed at his request after circumstances she would have thought all-commanding, this epistolary novel follows her devotion from the first days of their engagement through family visits, separations and growing uncertainty. Only her side of the correspondence appears, so the reader must guess at his.
Published anonymously in 1900, it set off a guessing game about its authorship before Housman was revealed as the writer. Download the free EPUB.