''The Ladies of Lyndon'' is a 1923 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. Her debut novel, it was rell-received and she followed it the next year with her breakthrough novel '' The Constant Nymph''.Sponenberg p.136

Synopsis

The novel follows the lives of a number of women connected with the country estate of Lyndon in the years leading up to and during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. Encouraged by her mother Agatha marries the owner Sir John Clewer after a brief affair with her cousin, the doctor, Gerald Blair. When he returns after sometime away it reawakens her passions. Meanwhile Sir John's younger brother James marries one of the

maid A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids ...

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* Hartley, Cathy. ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women''. Routledge, 2013. * Sponenberg, Ashlie. ''Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950''. Springer, 2006. * Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982. * Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English''. Oxford University Press, 1996. 1923 British novels Novels by Margaret Kennedy Novels set in England Heinemann (publisher) books 1923 debut novels {{1920s-novel-stub