Anna and Her Daughters - Large Print Author:D. E. Stevenson Anna Harcourt, a beautiful and formerly wealthy woman of forty, is left with three grown daughters and very little money when her husband dies. To everyone's surprise and much against the will of two of her daughters, Anna moves her family from fashionable London to a small cottage in Scotland. — The daughters are very different. Helen, the eldes... more »t, is so beautiful that she has only to smile to get what she wants. She finds the cottage dull and moves to Edinburgh. Rosalie, always in Helen's shadow, has never been happy, but she finds an interest in her work for Dr. Kenneth Ferguson and his wife, who live nearby. Jane, the youngest and by no means a beauty, doesn't look for happiness, but gives up her dream of going to Oxford and goes to work. By some inexplicable twist of fate, all three girls meet and fall in love with the same man, Ronnie Ferguson.
The strange situation makes for a novel of unusual charm as Miss Stevenson develops the dreams, loves, disappointments and achievements of these four women with rare insight into their lives and emotions.
Note: Dorothy Emily Stevenson wrote all her novels as D. E. Stevenson, and all were published in that manner.« less