The Scarlet Shawl | Richard Jefferies

Introduction by Andrew Rossabi (softback)

The Scarlet Shawl was Jefferies’ début novel, a light, amusing comedy of manners. The heroine Nora quarrels with her suitor Percival, a conceited young man whose head is turned by the flattery of a cocotte, while Nora becomes engaged to a man she does not truly love.

There are several passages of power and beauty that anticipate the mature writer, including a luxuriant chapter on the fascination of the colour scarlet; a rhapsodic evocation of the dawn over London Bridge; and an intensely dramatic account of Nora’s gradual subjection to the icily immaculate Sir Theodore.

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