Jill
Jill is the story of an unconventional heroine - a gentlewoman who disguises herself as a maid and runs away to London in search of adventure.
A new introduction by Kirsti Bohata tells the autobiographical story on which the novel is based - the author's own passionate attachment to a woman she called her wife, but who she couldn't have.
Paperback 326pp
Amy Dillwyn (1845 - 1935) was a radical novelist, feminist campaigner and early female industrialist. She was the author of six novels, a regular reviewer for The Spectator and contributor to the The Red Dragon. She published a few short stories and poems, as well as some early allegories for the SPCK. Three of her novels have been reissued by Honno Classics: The Rebecca Rioter, A Burglary and Jill.
