Physical description

Hard cover book. Vanessa
Author: Hugh Walpole
Publisher: MacMillan & Co
Date: 1933
Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. 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 WAL
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Contents page has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute.

Summary

Vanessa (1933) is the final instalment of Walpole’s Herries Chronicle, with the family saga now in the early twentieth century. The Herries Chronicle is a multi generational saga set in the Lake District. The earlier volumes are Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931) and The Fortress (1932). The Project Gutenberg Australia text lists Vanessa as Adam Paris’s daughter and Judith Paris’s granddaughter. The novel ends just before the First World War, with Vanessa’s love story.