Floyd Dell | Diana Stair | Set in the early 19th century. Diana is writer, a mill-girl, a school-teacher and an abolitionist. Though attracted to, and attractive to men, she is
Honore de Balzac | Seraphita | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv
Rose Franken | Intimate Story | The petticoated pitfalls of the woman alone, afraid to trespass on her children’s lives, unsure of her own, this has of course the expected womanly wa
Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. When the young Miss Sydney falls und
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Eric Ward | Uncharted Seas | An excellent, perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and time on
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | A classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and intense relationship devel
Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. When the young Miss Sydney falls und
