The Third Miss Symons

Author(s): F. M. Mayor

Genre(s): Published 1900 Onward

Narrators: Rachel Lintern

Number of Chapters: 5

Length: 3 hours and 17 minutes

Language: English

Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common among our best writers; it is compressed into a space about a third as long as the ordinary novel, yet form and manner are so closely suited that all is told and nothing seems slightly done, or worked with too rapid a hand. (Summary from the Preface by John Masefield)