The Actress in High Life

Description

he scene lies primarily in Portugal in the year 1812, and the characters are essentially British officials, and their female family members, one of whom, Lady Mabel Stewart, girl of Lord Strathern, straight from Scotland, is the champion; while a certain l’Isle, a Spaniard, figures as the saint. The book is reliant for its enthusiasm on the lovemaking of those portrayed, and the jealousies which emerge.