A Girton Girl
Transcriber’s Note: Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
A GIRTON GIRL
ANNIE EDWARDES
AUTHOR OF ‘ARCHIE LOVELL,’ ‘OUGHT WE TO VISIT HER?’ ETC.
O Women, Women! O our frail frail sex!
No wonder tragedies are made from us.
Always the same: nothing but loves and cradles’
The Revolt of the Women (Aristophanes)
A NEW EDITION
LONDON
Annie Edwards
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A GIRTON GIRL
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I TRIANGULAR FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER II POKER TALK
CHAPTER III HAS HE A WIFE?
CHAPTER IV A TRINITY BALL
CHAPTER V MARJORIE
CHAPTER VI TWO IN ARCADIA
CHAPTER VII ON THE BRINK OF A FLIRTATION
CHAPTER VIII CROSS-STITCH
CHAPTER IX HALF WAY TOWARDS LITTLE GO
CHAPTER X ‘THEY SAY——’
CHAPTER XI ‘DODO’S DESPAIR’
CHAPTER XII YELLOW-BACKED NOVELS
CHAPTER XIII THROUGH SMOKE-COLOURED SPECTACLES
CHAPTER XIV BROUGHT UP BY THE JESUITS
CHAPTER XV A LOVE-LETTER
CHAPTER XVI A RASH RESOLVE
CHAPTER XVII THE FIRST CRUMPLED ROSE-LEAF
CHAPTER XVIII HOW DINAH SAID ‘YES’
CHAPTER XIX GASTON ARBUTHNOT’S PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER XX ‘JAMES LEE’S WIFE’
CHAPTER XXI ‘IS MY VIRGIL PASSABLE?’
CHAPTER XXII LINDA AS AN ART CRITIC
CHAPTER XXIII A SWAGGER AND A SWORD
CHAPTER XXIV REX BASIRE’S HUMOUR
CHAPTER XXV YOU—AND I!
CHAPTER XXVI CUT AND THRUST
CHAPTER XXVII GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY
CHAPTER XXVIII FOR AULD LANG SYNE
CHAPTER XXIX MISSING
CHAPTER XXX LINDA WARMS TO HER PART
CHAPTER XXXI WIFE AND HUSBAND
CHAPTER XXXII ROSE-WATER SOCIALISM
CHAPTER XXXIII CLOSE TO PORT
CHAPTER XXXIV DEAD ROSE PETALS
CHAPTER XXXV A TRAITRESS
CHAPTER XXXVI THE LAST OF ARCADIA
CHAPTER XXXVII A STONE FOR BREAD
CHAPTER XXXVIII TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XXXIX THAT LITTLE DIVINITY
CHAPTER XL AT THE BUNGALOW
CHAPTER XLI ONE WORD
CHAPTER XLII EMANCIPATION
CHAPTER XLIII GEOFFREY CALLS TO BE PAID
CHAPTER XLIV KISMET
CHAPTER XLV LABELLED AND CORDED
CHAPTER XLVI A BYE-TERM MAN
CHAPTER XLVII BESIDE THE CRADLE
CHAPTER XLVIII HAPPINESS
CHAPTER XLIX FROM DINAH’S HAND