In the canon
Ann Veronica
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1909
- Pages
- Pages 300
The freest place in this book is a London laboratory: gas jets, preserving spirit, a dissection pinned open beneath the lamp, and a runaway daughter bent over it in the first real happiness of her life. Ann Veronica Stanley gets there by going to a fancy dress ball her father has forbidden her, and then leaving his suburban villa for good with a suitcase and no notion of what money costs.
I want to be a person by myself, and to pull my own strings.
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