Physical description

Hard cover book. White Ladies
Author: Francis Brett Young
Publisher: William Heinemann Limited
Date: 1935
Further Information: Blue Cloth hardcover, red spine with no lettering visible and a gilt patterning to front cover. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with the typed text PAT FIC YOU
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute

Summary

White Ladies is a 1935 novel in which the granddaughter of a wealthy tycoon and his well-bred wife becomes obsessed with recovering the family estate, an Elizabethan manor house named White Ladies. Like many of the author’s Mercian novels, much of it is set in Worcestershire. The heroine is Arabella Tinsley III, her mother, Arabella II, ran away with a young man from her father’s drawing office. Arabella III was due to inherit the fortune and business her grandfather built. The reviewer calls it a story of passion and obsession around the house.