The Adventures of Miss Gregory

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The Adventures of Miss Gregory (1911)
by Perceval Gibbon
The Adventure on a Portuguese Trader
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Illustrations (by William Hatherell) omitted. First published in serial form in McClure's Magazine, 1911-12.
Imagine a self-sufficient Englishwoman of middle age, grey-haired, portly but not corpulent, with a kindly smile, a big heart, and an unwavering fearlessness; a woman of wealth and position, with powerful friends in the official and diplomatic circles of half a dozen European powers; furthermore, a woman with a strong hatred of injustice and an irresistible instinct to reach out a helping hand regardless of the consequences to herself: such in brief is Miss Gregory, intrepid seeker of adventure and author of Saharan Solitudes. We are privileged to follow her through all sorts of queer experiences, from a shipwreck on a Portuguese trader to arrest and imprisonment with a band of Russian nihilists. —Frederic Taber Cooper in "The Technique of Conversation and Some Recent Fiction," The Bookman, 1913
Often enough Perceval Gibbon arouses great expectations; almost as often he disappoints them. His is an unusual talent for unveiling flashes of exotic mystery, and showing life as reckless and futile as a gambler's game. His "atmospheric effects" are sometimes very fine, and he knows the quality of light and shade in many strange places....—the Nation, 1913
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