Honourable Estate: A Novel of Transition - Brossura

Brittain, Vera

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860497829 ISBN 13: 9781860497827

Casa editrice: Virago, 2000

Riassunto

Young Janet Harding is still grieving when she accepts a proposal from Reverend Rutherston, the kindly vicar who befriended her during her mother's last illness. Her ambitions to further the suffragette cause are hampered, though, by her early pregnancy with a son, Denis, and life in the spa town of Sterndale is increasingly stifling... Stephen Allendeyne, heir to Dene Hall, prides himself on his marriage to Jessie Penryder, an impoverished governess with little respect for his smug family but plenty of social ambition. At odds in all else, the couple are united in their scorn for daughter Ruth's preference for work, ideas and freedom over marriage... In the aftermath of WWI, Ruth and Denis meet each other through work in Eastern Europe. The scars of their pasts and of the war itself are diminished in a determination to forge a new kind of marriage.

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Descrizione del libro:

*A poignant novel of the early days of the women's movement and its effect on the lives of women from the 1890s to the 1930s

L'autore:

Vera Brittain (1893-1970) went up to Oxford but in 1914 left to enlist as a VAD nurse. After the war she returned to Oxford and met Winifred Holtby. She was a tireless supporter of pacifism and feminism, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer. She wrote twenty-nine books.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860497829
• ISBN 13: 9781860497827
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608