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The Limit

by Ada Leverson

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First published
1911
Pages
167
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Valentia Wyburn has a dinner invitation to arrange and a husband whose steady questions complicate her plans. Her cousin Harry de Freyne is bringing together Daphne and Van Buren, an American millionaire eager to meet English artists and celebrities. Valentia hopes the meeting will offer Daphne a promising match, while Romer's literal replies expose the awkward reasoning behind her social schemes.

Ada Leverson's British novel builds its comedy from conversations, manners and the effort to make carefully managed encounters appear accidental. A later scene turns to Mrs. Foster reading her poems to Daphne, followed by a garden meeting between Daphne and Cyril. Picturesque surroundings and affectionate words sit alongside Daphne's uncertainty about her own happiness.

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Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson (1862–1933) was a British novelist and wit at the centre of London's literary set at the turn of the century. She is remembered as a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who nicknamed her "The Sphinx" and whom she received at her home on the morning of his release from prison.

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First published
1911
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
167
Language
English
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