Title: Consequences
Description: A novel about the plight of girls given no opportunities apart from marriage. Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who 'offers' and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story.
Subjects: Loneliness, Fiction, Young women, Aristocracy (Social class), Alienation (Social psychology), Social life and customs