Publication

1930 - Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

68,500 words, Guess

Page Count

274 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPZ3.I736 No
  • LCCPR6017.R84 No

Description

None So Pretty describes, with a sensibility and conviction unusual in historical fiction, the life of a young girl brought up in a large, aristocratic, but impecunious family, and married off at an early age to a neighbouring squire who nightly drinks himself under the table. It is not long before the young wife discovers that her sottish husband keeps a mistress at his lodge gates, and that he does not propose to consummate his marriage. Relief from a life of intolerable loneliness comes in the form of a young cavalier who stumbles into her bedroom one night after a hearty carouse downstairs, and the acquaintance thus started swiftly ripens into a deeper affection. To disclose the final sequence of events in this curious drama would be to spoil the story for a prospective reader; one must be content to conclude that by commending Miss Irwin's fascinatingly life-­like and original characters, and her gift for creating vivid, unforgettable mental pictures.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • None So PrettyHarcourt, Brace and Company1930-01-01

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