Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, "e;affronting her destiny,"e; finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. The novel's protagonist, the Lady of the title. Isabel is a young woman from Albany, New York, who travels to Europe with her a...