While serving as an ambulance driver in the War, Stephen meets the young Mary Llewellyn, with whom she begins a romantic relationship after the war ends.Īs Stephen immerses herself in her writing once again, Mary grows lonely. Stephen moves to Paris to experience more of life and improve her writing, but when World War I begins, she moves back to London to help with the war effort. Stephen leaves Morton with her former governess, Puddles, moving first to London, where she becomes a successful writer with Puddles’s support. Angela then hands it to her husband, who gives it to Anna, creating a rift between mother and daughter.
Still, Stephen writes a letter to Angela expressing her feelings. Stephen finally starts to feel herself blossom at Angela’s touch, but she soon finds out that Angela is having another affair. In this instance, however, Stephen’s crush isn’t so innocent, nor is the woman on the receiving end. Later in life, Stephen finds herself enamored again, this time with married American beauty Angela Crossby.
Once Sir Philip hears of the debacle, he removes Collins from his service, leaving Stephen to grieve her first love. Stephen reacts violently to this discovery, causing an uproar in the Morton household. Following Collins about the house and obsessing over Collins’s wounded knee are two of Stephen’s favorite pastimes, until she witnesses Collins kissing one of the men in the Gordons’ service. Around the age of seven, Stephen develops a crush on one of the Gordons’ maids, Collins. She loves to wrestle Sir Philip, ride horses, hunt, and make the most of the green hills of Morton, the Gordon’s ancestral home outside of Upton-on-Severn in England. They use the name anyway.Īs a child Stephen has a zest for life. When Stephen is born, Stephen is a girl, not the young boy they’d been dreaming of. They joyfully plan for the birth of Stephen, a name selected by Sir Philip to remind him of his favorite saint. After 10 years of marriage, Sir Philip and Lady Anna Gordon are finally expecting a child.
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