Miss Peabody’s inheritance
University of Queensland Press,
Elizabeth Jolley
‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cultured and eccentric schoolmistress, travels to Europe accompanied by a shy schoolgirl and the jealous Miss Edgely. Meanwhile, the Australian novelist Diana Hopewell answers a letter from Miss Peabody, an incompetent clerical worker living in a London suburb, and the ensuing correspondence between the two women changes Miss Peabody’s life and personality dramatically.’
An Australian who wrote a lesbian romance corresponds with one of her readers, Dorothy Peabody, an unmarried fiftyish typist who lives in England with her bedridden mother.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780702217920 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Fiction |
| Publication Date | 01-Sep-83 |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 157 |
| Award | Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Award | Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels |
| Subject | Fiction; Novelists; Novelists, Australian Fiction; Single Women; Single Women Australia Fiction |
| BookID | 8338 |