Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells

Description

Ann Veronica Stanley is twenty-one and studying science, yet still expected to sit quietly in her respectable suburban home. When her father refuses to let her travel to London for a biology class, she simply packs a bag and leaves — the first move in a determined campaign for a life of her own. H. G. Wells published Ann Veronica in 1909, and the novel’s refusal to soften its heroine’s rebellion made it one of the most talked-about books of its season, condemned in some quarters and championed in others.

The story carries Ann Veronica into the charged atmosphere of Edwardian London: suffrage meetings and militant argument, new ideas about marriage and friendship, and the circles of clever, unmarried people whose lives look nothing like the one she left behind. Wells writes with the same velocity and wit he brought to his science fiction, and he treats Ann Veronica’s choices — and her insistence on being allowed to make them — with complete seriousness.

Why readers still come back to it

• A novel about a woman who walks out — and the novel never apologises for her.
• Wells at his most controversial and most alive, mixing social comedy with genuine argument.
• A love story that was scandalous in 1909 and remains charged today.

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