The Spring House (Women Writers, Band 31) - Softcover

Asquith, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712355049 ISBN 13: 9780712355049

Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2026

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It is 1915, and Miranda Gray is spending the war on the other side of the Atlantic to her Canadian husband. Staying with her eccentric relatives and young son at her family’s stately home, Star Cross, Miranda struggles to find her wartime role. Is she the stoic wife of a distant military man, the duty-bound nurse, the promiscuous society hostess, reluctant muse to a pacifist poet, a mother, a sister, a daughter, or some amalgamation of all? Gradually, as the war brings death and destruction to those closest to her, Miranda is offered a glimpse of something beyond these stilted roles – a chance at real love. 

The Spring House artfully balances humour and devastation; at once a deftly written psychological portrait and a social document revealing the slow birth of the twentieth century and the new woman.

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Cynthia Asquith (1887-1960) was an author and socialite, best known for her supernatural stories and close friendships with prominent authors such as D. H. Lawrence and J. M. Barrie. The Spring House was her first novel. She also wrote biographies and children’s books and edited a well-known anthology of supernatural stories called The Ghost Book. In 1910 she married Herbert Dixon Asquith, the son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.

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• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0712355049
• ISBN 13: 9780712355049
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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