Description
In Victorian society, Susanna Holcombe—sensitive, imaginative, and determined to live by her own lights—finds that fitting in can feel like a kind of confinement. When she travels to her mother in Paris, she forms a friendship with Tempy and soon becomes drawn into the orbit of Colonel Dymond, a widower whose presence complicates the delicate balance of propriety, expectation, and feeling. As Susanna navigates introductions, judgments, and the unspoken rules governing women’s choices, the novel explores how love and independence collide under the pressure of class and convention. With Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s keen social observation and quietly incisive storytelling, this is a character-driven study of identity, agency, and the cost of trying to be “acceptable” rather than true.
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Published Jan 1, 1885
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First Published
1885
Language
eng
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