This isn't my favorite Henry James book but it was written well. This book is about suffrage movement. It is obvious that Henry James thinks a woman's place is at home. His attitude makes this book outdated and that's why it took me a couple of months to get through the whole thing. The book centers around a man named Basil and his love for Verena. But Verena is torn between her feelings between Basil and Olive, a feminist who is more or less her teacher. I have to give it to Henry James for daring to write about lesbianism in 1886. There was a movie with Christopher Reeves and Vanessa Redgrave made of this. I need to watch it some time.
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