A restless young woman defies her controlling father to attend a forbidden dance and pursue scientific study in London, then leaves home outright for an independent life of suffragette activism, romance, and self-invention.
Books mentioned in Ann Veronica (2)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books--Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl.”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “This girl--she's really a very charming, frank person--had had her imagination fired, so she told me, by a school performance of Romeo and Juliet."”