Mary Olivier, a life
May Sinclair · 1919
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Mary Olivier is one of May Sinclair's best-remembered novels. The youngest of four children and the only girl in her Victorian family, Mary Olivier faces formidable barriers: she will not be educated as her brothers, nor will she be afforded their freedoms. Held emotionally hostage to a calculating mother, Mary retreats into her imagination and into books. Rejecting Victorian formulas, she becomes a published poet and refuses to marry a succession of suitors. Yet she remains a dutiful daughter. Hers is a timeless story in which obligation and liberty, acquiescence and rebellion coexist in a fully realized, ultimately modern woman.
First sentence: THE curtain of the big bed hung down beside the cot.
Book details
- Year
- 1919
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- Editions
- 23
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN
- 9780548018392
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