Ann Veronica - A Modern Love story - PDF by H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica - A Modern Love story - PDF by H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica is the youngest of five children and the only one left at home. 

Finding a life of "calls, tennis, selected novels, walks and dusting" to be stifling, she has persuaded her father to let her attend college, although only the Tredgold Women's College, not the more prestigious "mixed" college that she wants to attend. 

Being one of the "New Woman" novels, I didn't know quite what to expect. This is the best, most realistic one I've read thus far. Vee's spunk is admirable and Wells took on the subject with a decent blend of traditional and non-traditional behaviour. The ending was very appropriate for me at this time in my life. It wasn't edgy and yet it wasn't sentimental. I would read this one again.

Review by Crystal

Contents:

I. Ann Veronica talks to her father ... I

Ii. Ann veronica gathers points of view ... 34

Iii. The morning op the crisis 54

Iv. The crisis 86

V. The flight to London 95

Vi. Expostulations 117

Vii. Ideals and a reality. 136

Viii. Biology 167

Ix. Discords 196

X. The suffragettes 234

Xi. Thoughts in prison 256

Xii. Ann veronica puts things in order . . . 268

Xiii. The sapphire ring 285

Xiv. The collapse of the penitent 308

Xv. On the last days at home 329

Xvi. In the mountains 342

Xvii. In perspective 365

Publication: 1910

Publisher Toronto, McClelland & Stewart