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Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy

Rebecca West (1929)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age16
Goodreads3.17

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Heroine archetypes

MusicianArtist / Painter

Synopsis

Rebecca West based the main character of Harriet in her novel on Harriet Cohen, a well known pianist and greatly admired beauty... The novel is described as a modernist story about a piano-playing prodigy and her obsessive lover, a corrupt politician. The novel immortalised Harriet's unfulfilled love affair with the composer Arnold Bax. --Wikipedia.com.

Tags

Literary FictionModernist FantasyHistorical FantasyRomance