The Third Miss Symons

By F M B 1872 Mayor and F.M. Mayor

Book Overview

The story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, through the ages, have neither married nor loved, the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. Henrietta is the third daughter in a large Victorian family, the misfit girl without the beauty or the talent to be loved. Querulous, bad-tempered, her meaningless life passes aimlessly by. But Henrietta has one saving grace. She knows herself for what she is, and self-knowledge, however bitter, turns her life of defeat into a certain kind of victory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860681319
• ISBN13: 9780860681311
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

a classic!

This book is both heartbreaking and inspiring. I read it again and again every two years or so. The author really understands the human heart, with its ability to experience great disapointment and sorrow, but also perseverance and strenghth.