Author: Horn, Kate
Title: Frivole
Description: Benman's, Bank Chambers, High Holborn, 1927, 2nd edition. Boards, G. 253pp, boards enevenly faded, split to the spine, cheap paper very browned, a fair copy of a cheaply produced book that was not meant to last! Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Uncommon fiction, which was first published in 1916 - 'the story concerns Daphne Fitz-Aubyn Estcourt, or Frivole, the elder daughter of Lord Edward Estcourt, a very serious young lady, with nothing frivolous about her. In a rash moment she has become engaged to Mr. Albert Gadby a rising young Socialist and exponent of tree thought, under whose influence she enthusiastically espouses the cause of social regeneration'. Pastoral fiction, for which the author was well known & popular.

Keywords: fiction