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Sto caricando le informazioni... Honourable Estate (1936)di Vera Brittain
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. So much eye rolling at Brittain's heavy handedness with her characters. Much like her Victorian predecessors who like to present paragons of Victorian femininity (think Esther in Bleak House), Brittain presents the paragon of the women's right's activist pre- and post-WWI. Her characters aren't complicated: they are either bad, like Mr. Rutherford; perfect, like Ruth; or simply sympathetic, like Denis. It's difficult to disassociate her from Ruth so it felt like she was trying to present herself as a perfect, intellectual socialist pacifist. Bottom line, eye rolling. ( ) What an ambitious novel -- full of ideas, political commitment, some well-conceived and dramatically rendered characters ... and yet, it's verbose, sometimes tediously didactic, even prophetic. It's interestingly autobiographical and clearly aimed at putting personal experiences into their place in the sweep of intellectual and social history. At times, Brittain paints an interesting picture of Great Britain in transition from the late Victorian and Edwardian eras through to post-WWI. Yet she so often slips into didacticism that I was continually bounced out of the narrative just as I started to be interested in the characters. I can appreciate her wish to show the struggle for women's rights and the anti-war movement, but a more subtle writer would have been able to show it through her story and her characters, rather than constantly lapsing into lecturing. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiVirago Modern Classics (466)
When Janet Harding marries a kindly vicar, she discovers the constraints of life with a clergyman and throws herself into the suffragette movement. But her dreams of emancipation give way to the responsibilities of an overburdened wife and mother. Stephen Allendeyne, smug heir to Dene Hall, prides himself on his union with Jessie Penryder, an impoverished governess with social ambitions. Generally at odds, the couple find harmony in opposing their daughter's modern ideas about independence. Then, in the aftermath of World War I, two lovers meet in Eastern Europe. Overcoming the scars of the war and their own pasts, they succeed in forging a new kind of partnership. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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