Mary Olivier, a life

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.

המשפט הראשון: THE curtain of the big bed hung down beside the cot.

שנה

1919

שפה

English

הוצאה

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

מהדורות

23

עמודים

382

ISBN

9780548018392

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata