Inside the story
Meet Eleanor Lavish
Miss Eleanor Lavish is a self-styled emancipated lady novelist staying at the Pension Bertolini in Florence. She presents herself as a clever, unconventional woman who wants to cast off the trammels of respectability, and becomes one of Lucy Honeychurch’s fellow guests.
On the page
A vigorous, clever middle-aged Englishwoman of bohemian, unconventional dress and emphatic manner, forever proclaiming her scorn for respectability.








