Hilda Lessways (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The second novel in the Clayhanger series, Hilda Lessways (1911) is told from the point of view of Edwin’s Clayhanger’s wife, Hilda. It describes her coming of age, her work as a shorthand clerk and in a lodging house in London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon, which ends in a pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation with Edwin.