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Ann Veronica is a novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. It describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty", [1] against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman.
Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against from the pulpits when it was first published due to Wells' ground breaking treatment of female sexuality. 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.
Sep 17, 2016 · Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams of avarice—and a constant ...
Mar 18, 2006 · Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Jan 1, 2006 · Ann Veronica - (1909) H. G. Wells. Read Books, Jan 1, 2006 - Fiction - 312 pages. Ann Veronica is the first novel in which Wells deliberately took a social and domestic problem and set it out...
Apr 16, 2022 · Ann Veronica is a novel by H.G. Wells first published in 1909. The book deals with political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminism.
Ann Veronica is considered the forgotten fiction of H.G. Wells; it tells the story of a feminist rebellion, as the eponymous protagonist Ann Veronica strikes out against her father's middle-class, draconian patriarchal home where she is treated like a child, even though she is a grown woman of twenty-two. Wells based the character on his lover ...
