Miss Peabody’s inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley

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

Author: LFWBooks