The Virgin and the Gypsy
earliest edition we have, 1968 Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2004 paperback 240 pages
Penguin twentieth-century classics
A posthumously published novella, the story tells of two sisters seemingly condemned to a drab and joyless existence with their father, a vicar, and their mean-spirited grandmother and aunt. When one of the girls befriends a Gypsy and a young unmarried couple, one of them a Jew, her father threatens to have her admitted to an asylum.
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