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Summary
Sheila, a seventeen-year-old typist who spends her days fantasizing about a movie-style romance, agrees to marry her forty-year-old employer. Reality falls short of fantasy, however, and Sheila has to learn to deal with the patronising attitudes of her husband's relatives and her own acute self-consciousness about her lower-class status. Led to believe that her husband has married her simply to produce a male heir, Sheila conceals her pregnancy from him and bears her child in Italy.
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Authors
Githa Sowerby
Katherine Githa Sowerby was born in 1876 in Gateshead, England. Her first play, Rutherford & Son, originally performed in 1912, was an outstanding success. Credited as G.K. Sowerby, the playwright was assumed to be a man. When Sowerby's true identity was revealed, she became ...