Lucy Honeychurch is a young girl stuck in Pension Bertollini, favored by respectable British tourists in Florence. Her chaperone only wants her to meet the “right sort” of people. Lucy wants to go out and see the Arno and mingle with Italians. She is torn between doing what your class in society tells you is right, and what your heart really wants to do. It was written in 1908, a time when some of the folk at the Pension were trying to throw off the yoke of Victorianism, while others were clinging to it.
Published in 1908
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