Consequences

Description:

A novel about the plight of girls given no opportunities apart from marriage. Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who 'offers' and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story.

subjects: Loneliness,  Fiction,  Young women,  Aristocracy (Social class),  Alienation (Social psychology),  Social life and customs