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Novel 328: Bithia Mary Croker, The Real Lady Hilda (1896)

April 26, 2025 David Bywaters

George Frederick Watts, Lady Somers


A woman returns from India to England and is treated ungratefully by a society leader whose life she saved.


For Croker, see Novels 013, 073, 129, 183, and 259.

The novel “has a fair measure of that cheerful vivacity which distinguishes her from most female novelists of the day.” Athenaeum, March 7, 1896

A “bright tale” with “sharply humorous characterization.” Academy, June 6, 1896

Download this fortnight’s novel:

https://archive.org/details/10792986.1984.emory.edu

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