Ann Veronica walks out of her father's house in Morningside Park because he will not let her attend a dance, and finds that independence costs rather more than the train fare. Wells trained under Darwin's champion Huxley and wrote this in the middle of his own scandalous affair; libraries banned it, the Spectator called it a poisonous book, and young women read it anyway. Sixty plates of parks and seashores by painters including Edvard Munch and John Lavery run from 1853 to 1928, the green and open air Ann Veronica fights to reach.
