Elinor Glyn
Birth date: October 17, 1864
Died: September 23, 1943
Elinor Glyn's Books
Worth reading, but wasn't great. That Verisschenzko was a big gas bag and I found myself skimming his speeches a bit.
3.5 stars. This story is told from the heroine's first person POV and was much more engaging than I expected. Ambrosine is a young woman from an old, proud, and impoverished noble family. She was primarily raised by her French grandmother who had plans for Ambrosine's marriage to a distant cousin bu...
An interesting read. I may post a review later.
Reviewed at Edwardian Promenade as: "A self made woman’s rise from a stenographer in a money lender’s office to a conspicuous round in the social ladder. How she learns from the mistakes she makes and how one’s actions come back to confront one make the story a life transcript. It is a constructive ...