'Rosamond Lehmann' in OBA Collectie

"A work of extraordinary beauty in which the protagonist, an English schoolgirl, twice develops strong attachments, once to a student who is a Lesbian, and then to a man whose own sexual temperament prevents him from responding to the offer of love." (D...

"A work of extraordinary beauty in which the protagonist, an English schoolgirl, twice develops strong attachments, once to a student who is a Lesbian, and then to a man whose own sexual temperament prevents him from responding to the offer of love." (D...

Set in Edwardian England, the book deals with the relationship between Rebecca, a young girl, and Sibyl Jardine, a complicated and domineering elderly woman. Contemporary reviewers compared the novel to the work of Henry James, though the book's feminis...

James Lees-Milne (1908?1997), known to friends as Jim, is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as "the...