Title: Lady of Letters
Author: Josephine Elder
Publisher: Greyladies
Date: 2008
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Description
Lady of Letters explores many of the themes familiar from Josephine Elder’s popular girls’ books; friendship, love of learning, being true to oneself.
Hilary Moore, educated at home by her gentle schoolmaster father, has a more troubled relationship with her temperamental mother. She moves from anxious child to respected history mistress at a girls’ high school, then university lecturer. Thoroughly at home in her academic life, it is in her friendship with an older science teacher and her romance with a young doctor that tensions arise and her ideals are tested.
Miss Elder’s intriguing disclaimer, “The characters in this book are might-have-beens, not portraits”, invites speculation on how much of this story is based on her own life.
This new edition is published by Greyladies, who specialise in adult fiction written by authors usually associated with children’s stories.
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