The Bohemian Girl (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports
us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon
first introduced to readers - as a celebrated grande horizontale -
in the opening pages of her 1982 debut Privileged Children. Diana
fears that the lot of an intelligent woman is to simply be married
and never again open a book. Her father wonders - not incorrectly -
if Diana's brains may lead her 'to some grave lapse in good
behaviour'. So it comes to pass one day when, riding on her bicycle
in Battersea Park, she knocks over a handsome Irish painter... 'A
pretty, witty little parable about Victorian values, and the
hazards of being female and intelligent in a country as sexist and
anti-intellectual as the United Kingdom... This romance has
teeth... it bites the eternal issues of class, and sex, and
freedom.' Philip Howard, The Times
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