Orphaned and shuttled between a rich aunt's household and a poor one, a romantic young woman refuses ordinary suitors while waiting for an imagined ideal 'angel of light,' until a real one finally proves worth having.
Books mentioned in Ayala's Angel (1)
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: “Though she was reading the "Idylls of the King," or pretending to read them, she was, in truth, thinking of all that had gone from her.”
Books that mention Ayala's Angel (1)
In Search of a Character by Graham Greene: “...a number of Trollope's - The Duke's Children, Can You Forgive Her?, Ayala's Angel, Ralph the Heir...”