Lady Connie - Mary Augusta Ward

Lady Connie by Mary Augusta Ward is a novel set against the social landscape of early twentieth-century England. Presented in paperback, this edition is published by Dover Publications Inc.

Key details

• Author: Mary Augusta Ward
• Subtitle: A novel
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Publication date: 16 January 2026
• ISBN: 9780486855684

Synopsis

Lady Constance Bledlow is wealthy, admired, and newly alone in the world. After being orphaned, she moves to Oxford to live with her aunt and uncle, where she must learn to read a new environment shaped by privilege, expectation, and distance.

Set in Edwardian England, the story traces a coming-of-age romance attentive to class distinctions and gender dynamics, as Connie weighs aristocratic tradition against emerging ideas of independence and personal identity. Encounters with both new acquaintances and familiar figures, including a rejected suitor from her past, push her towards a clearer understanding of what she wants from life, and from love.

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