Pegasus Yoked by Hilda Lewis.
 
Judith Kozanski longs for a fuller life than seems possible in her East End home, and by winning a scholarship to the University she takes her first step towards freedom. But the wider atmosphere serves only to deepen her antagonism; the perpetual friction between environment and temperament makes her moody and quarrelsome.
 
She falls in love with Sergei Asarov, a Russian poet, who belongs to the life she so ardently covets, but soon the pinpricks of disappointment deepen into bitter disillusionment.
 
With the coming of their child, all Judith's adolescent instability stiffens into single-minded courage. Since Sergei does not welcome the child she must be father and mother both
 But the child is still-born..............................