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Third Miss Symons

Mayor, F.M.
Heftet / 1987 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780860681311
Publisert
1987-08-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Mayor, F.M.
Introduksjon ved
Hill, Susan

Om bidragsyterne

Flora Macdonald Mayor was born in 1872 and read History at Cambridge. Five of her novels have been published, one posthumously, and a collection of stories for children. But it is this novel, published in 1913 and THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER, published in 1924 which best express her artistic genius. After life long ill-health she died in 1932.

Third Miss Symons

Mayor, F.M.
Heftet / 1987 / Engelsk
Mayor, F.M.
Heftet / 1987 / Engelsk
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Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance

INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines

GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content..

Susan Hill

The story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, through the ages, have neither married nor loved, the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. Henrietta is the third daughter in a large Victorian family, the misfit girl without the beauty or the talent to be loved. Querulous, bad-tempered, her meaningless life passes aimlessly by. But Henrietta has one saving grace. She knows herself for what she is, and self-knowledge, however bitter, turns her life of defeat into a certain kind of victory.
Les mer
<p>*A marvellous, moving novel of solitude, spinsterhood and, above all, triumph.<br />*An extraordinary many faceted account of one woman, and the richness of her being.</p>
Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance - INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines - GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content.. - Susan Hill

Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance - INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines - GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content.. - Susan Hill
Les mer
*Review round-ups

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Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance

INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines

GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content..

Susan Hill

The story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, through the ages, have neither married nor loved, the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. Henrietta is the third daughter in a large Victorian family, the misfit girl without the beauty or the talent to be loved. Querulous, bad-tempered, her meaningless life passes aimlessly by. But Henrietta has one saving grace. She knows herself for what she is, and self-knowledge, however bitter, turns her life of defeat into a certain kind of victory.
Les mer
<p>*A marvellous, moving novel of solitude, spinsterhood and, above all, triumph.<br />*An extraordinary many faceted account of one woman, and the richness of her being.</p>
Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance - INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines - GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content.. - Susan Hill

Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance - INDEPENDENT

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines - GUARDIAN

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content.. - Susan Hill
Les mer
*Review round-ups

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780860681311
Publisert
1987-08-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Mayor, F.M.
Introduksjon ved
Hill, Susan

Om bidragsyterne

Flora Macdonald Mayor was born in 1872 and read History at Cambridge. Five of her novels have been published, one posthumously, and a collection of stories for children. But it is this novel, published in 1913 and THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER, published in 1924 which best express her artistic genius. After life long ill-health she died in 1932.

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