Mr Skeffington was Elizabeth's last book, written in Switzerland and France shortly before the outbreak of WW 2, and published in 1940 in the USA and the UK. It is a complex, paradoxical, and sardonic story in which the main character, Lady Frances Skeffington, was exceptionally beautiful when young, had lost much of her beauty after a severe illness, and knew her 50th birthday was coming soon.
The text was taken from The University of Adelaide ebook library, and checked against the Virago version. I have silently corrected typos, curled apostrophes, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.
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