EAN: 9788027293605

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The Woman Who Did is a tale about a young self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. Herminia Barton the Cambridge-educated daughter of a clergyman frees herself from her parents' influence moves to London and starts living alone. As she is not a woman of independent means she starts working as a teacher. When she meets and falls in love with Alan Merrick a lawyer she suggests they live together without getting married. Reluctantly he agrees and the couple move to Italy. There in Florence Merrick dies of typhoid before their daughter Dolores is born. Legal technicalities and the fact that they were not married prevent Herminia from inheriting any of Merrick's money. Dreaming of being a role model for Dolores and her friends Herminia returns to England and raises her daughter as a single mother.

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