Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Everett Millais and James Tissot. Late-Victorian society in London, Richmond and the English country houses, with an interlude in Rome: tableaux vivants that run past midnight, a jealous beauty determined to get a rival out of her path, and Vaura, the heroine the plots gather round. Annie G. Savigny wrote from Toronto about the English upper classes and let their snobberies speak for themselves — the interest now is documentary as much as romantic, a colonial novelist's view of the society her own city was busy copying. Fifty-three plates of Victorian portraiture by painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Francis Montague Holl give faces to the society Savigny's characters move through.