It seems her patroness, one Agatha Kent, was expecting someone older and a bit more conventional.
She is a bit less gratified once she gets there. She is therefore extremely gratified when she is chosen as the Latin mistress at a local grammar school in East Sussex.
When she finds herself orphaned at the age of 23 she realizes that her days of a rather bohemian style of life are at an end she must make a living and there are relatively few opportunities for a woman to do so in 1914. Beginning, quite literally, in the summer of 1914, before war is declared, this is a gently critical novel of Edwardian sensibilities and their prejudices regarding sex, gender, class and charity.īeatrice Nash has spent most of her life abroad, traveling with her famous scholarly father. Many, many novels have claimed to be “for fans of Downton Abbey.” Most of those tales do not live up to the hype but Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War, while making no such claim, actually delivers on that promise.
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