About:
Though Gerard Lumby falls in love with the violet-eyed Constance, so does Valentine Strange—an idle, rich man with dreams of sailing around the world. Their friendship is tested by their love rivalry, which eventually ends in Strange's betrayal and doomed elopement with Constance.
A book listed as queer in Edward Prime-Stevenson's short story, "Out of the Sun," published in Her Enemy, Some Friends, and Other Personages.
Editions
- Chamber's Journals (Jan 7-Dec 30 1882). Original serialization. Page numbers found on Victorian Fiction Research Guides.
- London : Chatto and Windus (1883) subtitled as a "New Edition." Released in three volumes: one, two, and three. They also released an omnibus in the same year and in 1889.
- London: Chatto and Windus (1885) as a Yellowback text. Seen at the The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Yellowbook site.
- New York : George Munro (1886) as Valentine Strange: A Story of the Primrose Way. Pocket Edition.
Content & Trigger Warnings
SUICIDE: Attempted by a main character, p365 of the 1886 pocket edition.
