H. G. Wells' _Ann Veronica_ , first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues of the time. It's heroine goes from being a naive young girl into becoming a picture of the New Woman. The novel caused a stir when it was released because of the main character's feminist outlook and becau
Ann Veronica
✍ Scribed by H.G. Wells
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2008;2005
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101493380
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✦ Synopsis
Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes -- a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.
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