Mr Skeffington Author:Elizabeth The story of a great beauty who has lost her loveliness....Lady Frances Skeffington realized with a start one day that she was nearly fifty years old, and she was to learn more gradually and more cruelly that she was no longer the great beauty she once had been. The story of how she caught up with her pad and found how it looked brought up to th... more »e present, and of how she filled the emptiness left by her lost beauty, makes as fine and as moving a novel as Elizabeth has ever written.« less