The Ballad and the Source

The Ballad and the Source is a novel by Rosamond Lehmann, first published in 1944 by Collins in the UK. Set in Edwardian England, the book deals with the relationship between Rebecca, a young girl, and Sibyl Jardine, a complicated and domineering elderly woman.

1945 US edition
(publ. Reynal & Hitchcock)

Contemporary reviewers compared the novel to the work of Henry James, though the book's feminism was then considered unfashionable.[1]

Lehmann returned to the character of Rebecca in her last novel, A Sea-Grape Tree (1976), which follows her as an adult dealing with betrayal by a married lover.

References

Susan Janet Kaplan, 'Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source: A Confrontation with "The Great Mother"', Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 1981), pp.127-145

External links

Review, Kirkus Reviews, April 2, 1945

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[1] Susan Janet Kaplan, 'Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source: A Confrontation with "The Great Mother"', Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 1981), pp.127-145