Miss Marvel
About this book
This novel by the author of O Genteel Lady! and Paradise is woven about the extraordinary figure of Angelica Marvel. Her girlhood in a New England mill village, her one romance, the growing loneliness of spirit that leads her to seek refuge from reality in a world of dreams--all this Miss Forbes portrays with exquisite art. Tenderly, subtly, she shows her waiting, always waiting for the ideal lover. Years roll on. Time sets its mark on her face and figure. Still she waits; still to herself she seems the village belle, young, innocent, brimming with love that can find no outlet.It is a remarkable theme that Miss Forbes has taken, and, as she develops it, one sees that she has told the story not only of Angelica Marvel but of humanity, of all the men and women who seek in their imagination the happiness denied them by actual life.