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A Superfluous Woman
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Author : Emma Brooke
language : en
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
Release Date : 2015-10-22
A Superfluous Woman written by Emma Brooke and has been published by Victorian Secrets Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Fiction categories.
Aristocratic Jessamine Halliday, suffering a “splenetic seizure” brought on by high breeding, is prescribed a therapeutic break in the Scottish Highlands. While there, she falls in love with handsome crofter Colin Macgillvray and makes an indecent proposal by offering him the “unconditional surrender” of her body but refusing to give her hand in marriage. A Superfluous Woman is an audacious exploration of the fin-de-siècle preoccupation with race, class, and the sexual double standard. Unsurprisingly, Brooke’s novel caused outrage among critics. Campaigner W. T. Stead denounced it as “an immoral tale,” and The Times lamented its distinctly feminist message. This reaction, and Brooke’s boldness, ensured that it became one of the best-selling New Woman novels of the 1890s.
A Superfluous Woman
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Author : Emma Brooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
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Superfluous Women
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Author : Jessica Zychowicz
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
Superfluous Women written by Jessica Zychowicz and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, and visual analysis, Superfluous Women explores the intersections between art, protest, and feminism in today's Ukraine.
A Superfluous Woman Classic Reprint
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Author : Emma Frances Brooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-01
A Superfluous Woman Classic Reprint written by Emma Frances Brooke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with categories.
Excerpt from A Superfluous Woman "Dying? H'm!" said the doctor. He was a short, square man with great shoulders; and he stood with his hands thrust into the pockets of his coat, and with his legs a little apart; he had forgotten to turn down his trousers before coming into the room, so that a pair of large strong boots, much splashed with mud, planted themselves only too visibly upon the carpet. He was not a West End doctor, and had made his way to this West End mansion by short stages in omnibuses and by short stages on foot. His practice lay among the sores which devour the flesh of Lazarus. Most of his hours were spent in those hospitals where the maimed worker seeks a little respite from misery before he passes from the cruelty of the world, and much of his leisure in gratuitous labor among the fetid dens of the poor. He seemed in his own eyes to be as a gatherer who binds together perpetually fallen sheaves of blighted corn, and his constant fight with death had brought a grim look into his face. But not into his eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Superfluous Woman
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Author : Emma Brooke
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
A Superfluous Woman written by Emma Brooke and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. The sexes suspect each other. Even the heartiest sympathy falls short of sympathy in proportion as there is therein an admixture of good-natured tolerance. And much of the sympathy between sex and sex is no more than a purposed toleration of probable weakness little understood. There was a note in Jessamine's message pitched too high for Dr. Cornerstone's comprehension. Even his insight into her probable misery could not account for it, and it irritated him. "She can go away. She can break the tie. Let her free herself," said he. To those not within the delicate meshes of some difficulty action seems always possible. "It seems easy, doesn't it? The odd thing is that everybody's individual mess is a sort of charmed circle out of which they do not find it so simple to step," returned Carteret. "Shall you go?" "Yes. Hysteria and wretchedness are my business." It was getting dusk next day when Dr. Cornerstone found himself alone in the private sitting room of Lady Heriot. A single lamp, covered with a shade, served rather to add to the obscurity than to illumine it, but he saw that the room was furnished with every possible luxury. It gave him a sense of oppression to be there; the wretched hours spent therein by an unhappy soul burdened the atmosphere. There seemed no escaping the infection; the breath sucked it in, and it lay heavy on the heart. He sat down to await her coming; he thought of her as of one who had left his guidance to learn life's merciless lesson by herself. Some deep experience she had conned alone. But that, he said, is life. And here, after ten years, he sat on her hearth watching the light stealing from the window and giving place to shadows, and the lamp glowing more and more to a ruby redness....
A Superfluous Woman
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Author : Emma Brooke
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-04-27
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What Shall We Do With Our Daughters
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Author : Mary Ashton Livermore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
What Shall We Do With Our Daughters written by Mary Ashton Livermore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Women categories.
A Superfluous Woman
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Author : Emma Frances Brooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
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Women And Work In Britain Since 1840
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Author : Gerry Holloway
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-07
Women And Work In Britain Since 1840 written by Gerry Holloway and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with History categories.
The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.
Superfluous Women
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Author : Carola Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Superfluous Women written by Carola Dunn and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Fiction categories.
In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"—brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec—Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard —go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.