Ann Veronica

At twenty-one the passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to rule her own life. When her autocratic father forbids her via formal letter from attending a fashionable art-school ball and even further refuses to allow her advanced study of science she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start alone. She escapes the stodgy suburbs to London enrolling as a student of biology and immersing herself in a world of intellectuals socialists and suffragettes. Soon however she finds that freedom comes at a price when she meets the brilliant Capes a married acad emic and falls hopelessly in love.