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Mary Olivier : a life / May Sinclair ; introduction by Katha Pollitt.
Van Pelt Library PR6037.I73 M3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, May.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- NYRB classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Girls--Fiction.
- Girls.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 437 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- First published in 1919, 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.
- Contents:
- bk. 1.
- Infancy (1865-1869)
- bk. 2. Childhood (1869-1875)
- bk. 3. Adolescence (1876-1879)
- bk. 4. Maturity (1879-1900)
- bk. 5. Middle age (1900-1910)
- Mary olivier: a life.
- Notes:
- Originally published: United Kingdom by Macmillan, 1919.
- ISBN:
- 0940322862
- OCLC:
- 47849407
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