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Ann Veronica
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Carolyn Seymour
Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/04/2009
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
At twentyone, the passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to rule her own life. When her autocratic father forbids her, via formal letter, from attending a fashionable artschool ball, and even further refuses to allow her advanced study of science, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start alone. She escapes the stodgy suburbs to London, enrolling as a student of biology and immersing herself in a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes. Soon, however, she finds that freedom comes at a price, when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and falls hopelessly in love. A fascinating description of the womans suffrage movement, Ann Veronica offers an optimistic depiction of one womans sexual awakening and search for independence.