The Woman Who Did

The Woman Who Did (1895) is a novel written by Grant Allen. The story opens where the Cambridge-educated Herminia Barton, a clergyman's daughter, who relocates to London and begins a career as a teacher. She meets and falls in love with the lawyer Alan Merrick, and the two of them go to Italy together. However, Merrick passes away from typhoid before their daughter Dolores is born. Herminia cannot...