The Bohemian Girl (Paperback, Main)

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

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2014
Authors:	Frances Vernon
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-32161-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-571-32161-5
Barcode:	9780571321612

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