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Fanny, a sheltered young girl brought up in Italy, has been sent to Cambridge to complete her education. Now she has written a play and for her birthday asks her father to arrange a private showing to an invited audience including four drama critics, but concealing the fact that she is the author. The play questions middle-class morality, suggesting that ‘the young had better have their souls awakened by disgrace, capture by the police, and a month’s hard labour, than drift from their cradles to their graves doing what other people do for no other reason than that other people do it, and know nothing of good and evil’. Her father is shocked. By the end of the performance, one of the critics has guessed quite correctly that the heroine, ‘MARGARET’, is in fact based on Fanny herself.see less

Fanny, a sheltered young girl brought up in Italy, has been sent to Cambridge to complete her education. Now she has written a play and for her birthday asks her father to arrange a private showing to an invited audience including four drama critics, but concealing the fact that she is the author. The play questions middle-class morality, suggesting that ‘the young...see more