An uncommon novel set against the backdrop of the growing women's suffrage movement by Ella Napier Lefroy, née Hastie (1854-1919), with a new young woman protagonist, Christian Macleod, who lives without a maid, wants to go shooting with the men, and dons clothes one can put on without assistance, a characteristic of the independent woman that began to be featured in novels at this this time [The Language of Dress in the New Woman Novel, Moody.]

Lefroy was a Glasgow-born writer who married Irish beer businessman Thomas Charles Perceval Lefroy. She lived in London and had four children and wrote several novels including The Scot’s Thistle. She also wrote under the pseudonym E. N. Leigh Fry.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1899. 19 x 13.5 x 4. 343 pages. Hardcover. Some scuffing and fading to edges of boards. Author's name also given as E. N. Leigh Fry.