The Life And Death Of Harriett Frean
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- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
9 January 1996
Summary
‘Well, I’m glad my little girl didn’t snatch and push. It’s better to go without than to take from other people. That’s ugly.’
Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, renunciation of this unworthy passion initially brings h…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860681069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860681068 |
| Author: | May Sinclair |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 9 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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‘Exceptionally modern in flavour and shocking in intensity’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘A little masterpiece, a disturbing analysis of English class and character’ NEW STATESMAN Hermione Lee in the TLS: ‘When the histories of modernism are rewritten, no one will be able to ignore May Sinclair again’
About The Author
May Sinclair
Born in Liverpool in 1863, May Sinclair had no formal education until the age of 18. She worked with Cicely Hamilton and Violet Hunt for the Suffragist cause and wrote a total of 24 novels in addition to philosophical works, poetry and criticism. She died in 1932.
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