Ebook {Epub PDF} Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley

VG/F, stated first ed, , Mary Wesley, Harnessing Peacocks, blue cloth boards with sharp gilt lett on spine, 14x22cm, pp, novel about freedom from family, exlib, slight spine lean, a tight bright clean unworn copy, unclipped dw like new in mylar. Editions for Harnessing Peacocks: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kin. First published in , Mary Wesley's third novel 'Harnessing Peacocks' centres on Hebe Rutter, a young woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and faced with being forced into a termination by her well-to-do, snobbish and controlling family who are aghast at the fact that she has allowed herself to become pregnant and is unable to name the father of her child/5().

"Mary Wesley goes from strength to strength she has a great zest for life The book is tremendously lively, funny, touching, spirited." Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, Second Fiddle, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative Experience, and Part of the Furniture, as well. A delightful look into the love between mothers and sons, friends and relatives, lovers and spouses, Harnessing Peacocks is a warm and witty look at relationships that will amuse as it inspires. Related collections and offers. Product Details; About the Author; Mary Wesley () was an English novelist. After she published her first. Mary Wesley's novels are entertaining, surprisingly immodest, and good fun. In "Harnessing Peacocks" - a classical reference to a woman snaring lovers - the central character, attractive and alluring Hebe (classical epitome of youth), 'harnesses' lovers who pay her for her sexual services.

Wesley identified the appalling grandparents in Harnessing Peacocks, who bully the pregnant Hebe, as the nearest she came to a portrait of her own parents in old age. Adult life. Lewis Clive fell in love with Wesley and asked her to marry him. In The Camomile Lawn, the character Oliver Ansty is a fictionalised version of Clive. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title, from Greek mythology). The story revolves around Hebe, her "clients", and their families, and set against a backdrop of village life in southwest England. Harnessing Peacocks is an English novel of manners turned on its ear. Hebe is such an interesting heroine: strong, smart, and intensely private. After learning she's pregnant at 16, her grandfather and brothers-in-law arrange for an abortion.