num_pages: 280
description: At twenty-one, 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 art-school 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 acad emic, and falls hopelessly in love.
language: English
title: Ann Veronica
titlecomplete: Ann Veronica
genres: Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Feminism, Audiobook, British Literature, Historical, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 1320
publisher: Everymans Library