Still she wished for company (The Landmark library, no. 5) - Hardcover

Margaret Irwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701112972 ISBN 13: 9780701112974

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1968

Synopsis

The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s, following two heroines: twentieth-century Jan Challard, a London girl, and eighteenth-century Juliana Clare, the youngest daughter of an aristocratic Berkshire family.

Jan is independent and spirited but leads a humdrum life, working in an office, and walks out with a very suitable young man.

Juliana, at 17 years of age, is getting the upbringing of a young lady in the enormous family mansion, Chidleigh, and her life is devoid of excitement and event.

The two heroines can see one another from time to time, momentarily, through some rent in the fabric of time but never manage to meet and interact. Their lives converge as Juliana’s world is turned upside down; her father dies, and her notoriously wicked and mysterious brother, Lucian Clare, returns to take his position as head of the family.

Lucian recognizes a supernatural power in Juliana and uses this to reach out to Jan through the ages.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Irwin (1889-1969) was educated at Clifton High School in Bristol, and then at Oxford University. She began writing books and short stories in the early 1920s. She married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell in 1929.

Irwin was praised for her historical accuracy in her novels, and she wrote passionately about the English Civil War. In The Proud Servant she caused generations to fall in love with the ill-fated but charismatic Earl of Montrose, Charles I's Commander in Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0701112972
• ISBN 13: 9780701112974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192