Mrs. Warren’s Profession

A Cambridge distinction, Vivie Warren says, cost her six to eight hours of mathematics a day—and she would not do it again for the same money.

On a sunny afternoon in Surrey, the brisk, self-possessed Vivie is reading law in a garden hammock when Praed arrives to introduce her to the mother who has arranged the meeting without asking her. Vivie would rather work than take a holiday, and sees her hard-won education not as a decoration but as a way to earn her own living. Praed, an artist who fears she has no room for romance or beauty, is in for a surprise—and so, perhaps, is the absent Mrs Warren. When mother and daughter finally meet, whose plans will prevail?

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