![]() ![]() Her mother came from a good family and her father, a working man. It was a hard life you were either working or you were sleeping there was nothing else. That’s not easy when you’re the daughter of a poor farmer from Possum Gully. She’s maddening andshe’s utterly charming …īut the most important thing about Sybylla, the thing that she doesn’t ever quite say, is that she wants to set her own path in life, to be mistress of her own destiny. She’s also nearly impossible to explain a curious mixture of confidence and insecurity, tactlessness and sensitivity, forthrightness and thoughtfulness …. If you took equal amounts of Becky Sharp, Cassandra Mortmain and Angel Devereaux, if you mixed them together, with verve and brio, and you might achieve a similar result, but you wouldn’t quite get there, because Sybylla Melvyn is a true one-off. In 1901 a remarkable heroine made her debut, in a book that purports to be her autobiography. ![]()
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