Young Emma

A masterpiece of unconventional love and social commentary in early 20th-century London. At the age of fifty, W. H. Davies, famed for his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, seeks a wife, turning away from literary circles to the streets of London. Young Emma is the disarmingly honest and humorous memoir of his search.

Davies recounts his affairs, from Bella, the wife of a Sergeant Major, to Louise, and finally meeting Emma, pregnant, at a bus-stop. This is the story of their love affair, naviga...