Latchkey ladies / by Marjorie Grant ; with an introduction by Sarah LeFanu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Marjorie, author.

Contributor:

LeFanu, Sarah, writer of introduction.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Handheld classic ; 25.

Handheld classic ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--Conduct of life--Fiction.

Single women.

Single women--England--London--Fiction.

Single women--Conduct of life.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 302 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bath, United Kingdom : Handheld Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The latchkey ladies are the women who live alone or in shared rooms in London at the end of the First World War, determined to use their new freedoms, and treading a fine line between independence and disaster. A powerful and moving novel from 1921, about the lives and choices of single women, by Marjorie Grant, a Canadian novelist and reviewer, and a close friend of Rose Macaulay."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Latchkey Ladies

1. The Mimosa Club

2. Simon's Pretty Ladies

3. Anne Walks Out

4. Melancthon

5. Petunia Garry

6. Ladies Must Talk

7. Miss Pratt and Miss Denby

8. Searchlights

9. Thomas

10. A Knight of Leicester Square

11. The First Form

12. Groping

13. Decision

14. `UnBonheur Cache'

15. Petunia Married

16. Poetry Day

17. Shadow

18. Aunt Minima

19. Carmichael

20. `Mark'

21. Ravelled Ends

22. Latchkey Ladies.

Notes:

Originally published: London: W. Heinemann, 1921.

"The end of the First World War gave women new freedoms, to work and live how they chose, and to risk everything they had gained."--Cover

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781912766628

1912766620

OCLC:

1304816806