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Ann Veronica
- 352 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1909
- 101 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. It describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, a 21-year-old woman , against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman.
It is set in Edwardian era-London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the Grille Incident, a 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.
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Good for readers who want: a classic, a coming-of-age story, and a book they can read free online.
- Classics
- Coming of age
- Romance
- Young women
- Fathers and daughters
- Social life and customs
- Sex role
- Feminism
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