What do I care for the world s opinion? What do I care for anything but you!

Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls: she hunts, she fences, she reads books, wears trousers and longs to cut her hair.

As she grows up amidst the stifling grandeur of Morton Hall, the locals begin to draw away from her, aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. And when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity, she falls passionately in love with another woman.

Introduced by Diana Souhami, author of the acclaimed biography The Trials of Radclyffe Hall