Ingeborg Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly becomes possessed by the demon Rebellion and takes a week's tour to Lucerne. Constantly in the company of a ponderous German pastor, she is put into a quandary when he proposes marriage. Faced with her father's wrath on her return, however, Ingeborg accepts her Herr Dremmel with simple relief.
But the role of a pastor's wife in East Prussia is not as Ingeborg had imagined, for she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another ...
- 'Elizabeth von Arnim is a mistress of irony' Lisa St Aubin De Teran
- '[von Arnim] was keenly aware of the powerlessness of an intelligent woman in a male-dominated world' Kate Saunders
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Published 02/02/2006
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