Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful fifteenyear old <strong>Angel</strong>retreats to a world of romance escaping the drabness of provincial life.... » 

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful fifteenyear old Angelretreats to a world of romance escaping the drabness of provincial life. Sheknows she is different that she is destined to become a feted authoress ownerof great riches and of Paradise House ...After reading The Lady Iraniapublishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success inspite of and perhaps because of its overblown style. But they are curiousas to who could have written such a book Some old lady romanticising behindlace curtains ...Angelica Deverell is too good a name to be true ...shemight be an old man. It would be an amusing variation. You are expecting tomeet Mary Anne Evans and in Walks George Eliot twirling his moustache. Sonothing can prepare them for the pale young woman who sits before them withnot a seed of irony or a grain of humour in her soul. «