Ann Veronica Illustrated

By: Wells, H. G.

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her attending a fashionable ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.A fascinating description of the women's suffrage movement, Ann Veronica offers an optimistic depiction of one woman's sexual awakening and search for independence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1710535741
• ISBN13: 9781710535747
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"Why can't they be like we were perfect in every way?"

"What's the matter with kids today?" Lyrics from "Bye Bye Birdie" Ann Veronica "Vee," asks the question "why can't a woman be like a man" and sets out to find out why. She discovers all sorts of men, some stuffy and some devious. She may one day stumble over the perfect man; she will never find me. She tries to be independent and is thwarted at every turn; that is until she realizes there are better things to do than just compete. We get to grow with Vee and go through several long dissertations, Ayn Rand style, over political freedom, love, equality, and whatnot. All the talk loses its way and with dumb luck returns to the story. We are treated to a travelogue and scratch ourselves with a long talk about the prison dingies. Just as it starts to get interested the story stops dead in the middle of a thought. The story is ok, and some of the subjects brought up are still relevant today. However, if you look a little closer at the story, as with much fiction is just a venue to express H. G.’s concept of free love. The illustrated versions do not illustrate anything interesting.