The Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mayor, F. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860681319 ISBN 13: 9780860681311

Verlag: Virago, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Corner of cover creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Críticas:

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)

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0860681319
• ISBN 13: 9780860681311
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162