Word: metroland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncle's nice young Catholic partner, Arnold Chapel. She has a purposeful miscarriage, a struggle for a cottage in lonely Cornwall, a temporary separation during which Aunt Evelyn makes every one miserable with maliciously romantic theories. At last convention conquers and Denham is condemned to housekeeping in metroland (suburbs). All of which is told by caustic Miss Macaulay more bluntly than ever, as befits the primitive heroine. Literary Lon don is the prize ox gored, but all nosey, worrying, oversocialized gibble-gabblers everywhere are told...