ISBN: 014016149X
Godina izdanja: 1986
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Clever Woman of the Family
Penguin, 1986
372 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Virago modern classics

Charlotte Mary Yonge was one of the most prolific writers of the nineteenth century. Though perhaps best known for her popular children’s books, she also wrote adult novels. Swiftly-plotted and cleanly-wrought, Yonge’s work has again gained critical attention, in part because she writes about the predicament of nineteenth-century women.

The Clever Woman of the Family is a new woman novel that focuses on a group of women in a small seaside community. It is the early 1860s and British women outnumber men to such an extent that not all women can expect to marry. Rachel Curtis, the clever woman of the title, is an opinionated young woman whose yearning for a “mission” in life leads to tragicomic results. The Broadview edition contextualizes the novel’s ambivalent feminism and pro-empire sentiments with materials on some of the most pertinent debates of the time.

Rose found the wheeled chair, to which her aunt gave the preference, was engaged, and shaking her little discreet head at `the shakey chair` and `the stuffy chair,` she turned pensively homeward, and was speeding down Mackarel Lane, when she was stayed by the words, `My little girl!` and the grandest and most bearded gentleman she had ever seen, demanded, `Can you tell me if Miss Williams lives here?`


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