Dusty Answer (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosamond Lehmann
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The first quarter of the twentieth century
- Setting: Cambridge, England, the English countryside around Buckinghamshire, and France
- Principal Characters: Judith Earle, Mrs. Earle, Charlie, Julian, Mariella, Martin, Roddy, Jennifer Baird, Geraldine Manners, Mabel Fuller, Tony Baring
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, France or French people, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Friendship, College life, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Women
- Locales: France, Cambridge, England
The Novel
Dusty Answer is essentially about a woman as she grows from a romantic and idealistic childhood to a young womanhood that is filled with disillusionment. Judith Earle is the only child of a socially elegant family. Both of her prominent parents keep extremely busy. They travel frequently and have little time for their daughter, who is reared by a governess and who grows close to her next-door neighbors, the Fyfe cousins.
The Fyfes do not live permanently in the house beside the Earles, but throughout Judith’s childhood, some of the cousins are usually there,...
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