The Black Opal
by Luke Allan. Published originally in 1935.
Luke
Allan is the pen name of Amy Lacey (1877-1962), a Canadian who travelled the
world but published most of his works from England
and France .
The heroine of The Black Opal, Ona Hampton is from the social elite in Quebec . She is thirteen
years old, drinks, smokes and drives. Her boyfriend is 27; she finished school
at 11 and the story says she should be married at her age!
The author also wrote an essay on
women, Degrading
a Generation.
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This book was very rare so we took the time to digitize this work.