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Originally published in 1924, The Constant Nymph tells the story of how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man. The novel was a bestseller after it was first... Read Full Overview

The Constant Nymph chronicles the complicated relationships within two families, primarily focusing on the character of Lewis Dodd, a charismatic, talented composer, and Tessa Sanger, the teenage daughter of his mentor, whose passionate love defies societal norms. Set against... Read Full Overview

The Constant Nymph is a poignant and unconventional love story that explores art, passion, and emotional innocence against the backdrop of bohemian Europe in the early 20th century.

The novel centers on Tessa Sanger, a sensitive and devoted teenage girl, one of... Read Full Overview

Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. The fourteen-year-old Tessa has fallen in love with Lewis... Read Full Overview

Adapted by Margaret Kennedy, from her own novel, with Basil Dean.10 women, 10 men

"The Constant Nymph" is a compelling exploration of the clash between bohemian idealism and the rigid constraints of traditional society. Centered on the eccentric and chaotic Sanger family-famously known as "Sanger's Circus"-the novel follows the lives of the children of... Read Full Overview

"Brilliant portraiture ... the clash between two incompatible worlds. Kennedy finds herself well to the front among novelists." - New York Times

"The Constant Nymph is startlingly modern in its outlook, the bohemian world it conjures being in many ways... Read Full Overview

Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. The fourteen-year-old Tessa has fallen in love with Lewis... Read Full Overview

" The Constant Nymph is] one of the best novels old or new, that had ever absorbed a reader's attention during the still hours."--Augustine Birrell, the New Statesman, December 6, 1924

Lewis Dodd, a young, troubled composer, arrives at "Sanger's... Read Full Overview