![]() ![]() Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal, and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform. But in securing her future, Sally must also face her past. This text refers to the paperback edition. She was often listed on the cover as By the author of The Sale of Lady Daventry, which was published in 1914. ![]() Sally is a spirited heroine, who is determined to settle into a comfortable life now that she is in her early thirties. Winifred Boggs (1874-1931) was the author of more than a dozen novels under her own name and two pseudonyms. This entertaining novel is full of acute and humorous observations of male and female attitudes to love and marriage. Sally aims to win but is distracted by her unsettling emotions for a soldier tortured by his experience at the Front. ![]() These two ladies form a quiet alliance, recognizing that the prize isn't really worth fighting over but respecting the other's pursuit of financial security. Dalton, a widow with a young daughter to raise. Bingley, the bank manager, although she has a rival in Mrs. With some encouragement from the local busybody, she makes a play for Mr. When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampton to find a husband. ![]()
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