James Jacques Joseph Tissot, The Ball
A millionaire falls in love unwisely.
If anybody knows anything about S. Vere, aside from her (?) authorship of this one short novel, I have been unable to discover it. In fact, I have found only a single review, which is excerpted below. The novel’s characters are well delineated, even if its plot is clumsily didactic.
“The story is carefully and tastefully written, and the character of the proud, wayward, but noble-hearted Lady Helena is well drawn.” Academy, August 18, 1877
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