Jenny Wren
by E. H. Young |
The Third Miss Symons
by F. M. Mayor |
Together and Apart
by Margaret Kennedy |
The Wedding Group
by Elizabeth Taylor |
Ordinary Families
by E. Arnot Robertson | 
The Gentlewomen
by Laura Talbot |
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor |
Troy Chimneys
by Margaret Kennedy |
The Misses Mallett
by E. H. Young |
The Doves of Venus
by Olivia Manning |
Poor Caroline
by Winifred Holtby |
Company Parade
by Storm Jameson |
Devoted Ladies
by M. J. Farrell | 
The Three Sisters
by May Sinclair |
Hunt the Slipper
by Violet Trefusis | 
South Riding
by Winifred Holtby | 
The Crowded Street
by Winifred Holtby | 
Anderby Wold
by Winifred Holtby | 
Independent People
by Halldor Laxness | 
The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth |
Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At 18, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of World War I. Joanna has been in love before--with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus--but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm, yet still she dares to dream.