Physical description
Hard cover book. Vera
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim (Mary Annette Beauchamp)
Publisher: MacMillan & Co
Date: 1921
Further Information: Green 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 VER
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 stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute
Summary
The leading character is Lucy Entwhistle, a naive young woman, who marries the widower Everard Wemyss. His house is haunted by the memory of his dead first wife, Vera, whom Lucy suspects of suicide. She gradually realises that he demands total intellectual and emotional servitude. Both are reeling from recent loss when they meet and fall in love quickly. The novel draws on the author’s second marriage, to Frank Russell, and is closer to a nightmare than her usual humorous, romantic books. It is a study of coercive control and domestic tyranny, written as a black comedy.
Keywords
- shipwrecked-coast,
- flagstaff-hill,
- flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum,
- warrnambool,
- maritime-museum,
- shipwreck-coast,
- flagstaff-hill-maritime-village,
- shipwrecked-artefact,
- book,
- pattison collection,
- warrnambool library,
- warrnambool mechanics’ institute,
- ralph eric pattison,
- corangamite regional library service,
- warrnambool city librarian,
- mechanics’ institute library,
- victorian library board,
- warrnambool books and records,
- warrnambool children’s library,
- book,
- vera
References
- Countess Von Arnim Obituary - Elizabeth von Arnim - Obituaries Australia
- Britannica.
- Wikipedia.
- Project Gutenberg.
- Wikipedia/2.
