num_pages: 536
description: The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as their lives have been described, the Major proposes marriage to a woman much younger than himself - and many changes begin.
language: English
title: The Priory
titlecomplete: The Priory
genres: Family, Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, Modern Classics, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 1176
publisher: Persephone Books