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The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
May Sinclair
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Description for The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
paperback. * Spare and deft, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is the quintessential modernist novel * Sinclair's work is hugely important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives Series: VMC. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130. Very good clean copy showing light age and wear. Light foxing to interiors of cover
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 her a peculiar sort of happiness. But the passing of time reveals a different truth.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Virago London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860681069
SKU
KMK0025530
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About 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.
Reviews for The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
'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'