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The Bohemian Girl (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon first introduced to readers - as a celebrated grande horizontale - in the opening pages of her 1982 debut Privileged Children. Diana fears that the lot of an intelligent woman is to simply be married and never again open a book. Her father wonders - not incorrectly - if Diana's brains may lead her 'to some grave lapse in good behaviour.' So it comes to pass one day when, riding on her bicycle in Battersea Park, she knocks over a handsome Irish painter..."A pretty, witty little parable about Victorian values, and the hazards of being female and intelligent in a country as sexist and anti-intellectual as the United Kingdom...This romance has teeth ...it bites the eternal issues of class, and sex, and freedom". (Philip Howard, Times).

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Bohemian Girl
• Author: Frances Vernon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780571321612
• ISBN: 0571321615
• ID: 04624790
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. October 2014

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