Consequences
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About This Book
Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who ‘offers’ and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story. Nor was it for EM Delafield, who also entered a convent for a year; but in her case she was able to find freedom through working as a VAD in an army hospital, ‘which was emancipation of the most delirious kind. It was occupation, it was self-respect.’Like Lytton Strachey’sEminent Victorians, written at the same time,Consequencesis a scream of horror against Vi...
Chapters (34)
- CONSEQUENCES
- E.M. DELAFIELD
- Book I
- I The Game of Consequences
- II School
- III Queenie Torrance
- IV Holidays
- V Other People
- VI The End of an Era
- VII London Season
- VIII Goldstein and Queenie
- IX Scotland
- X Noel
- XI Engagement of Marriage
- XII Christmas Pantomime
- XIII Decision
- XIV Barbara
- XV Diamond Jubilee
- XVI Mother Gertrude
- XVII Lawn-Tennis
- XVIII Crisis
- Book II
- XIX Belgium
- XX Aftermath
- XXI Father Farrell
- XXII Rome
- XXIII N.W.
- XXIV All of Them
- XXV Violet
- XXVI August
- XXVII The Embezzlement
- XXVIII Cedric
- XXIX Forgiveness
- XXX Epitaph
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