The Chinese garden / Rosemary Manning ; afterword by Patricia Juliana Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Rosemary.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Somerset (England)--Fiction.

Somerset (England).

Boarding schools--Fiction.

Boarding schools.

Lesbian teenagers--Fiction.

Lesbian teenagers.

England--Somerset.

Genre:

Feminist fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

1st Feminist Press ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000.

Summary:

"The Bampfield School for Girls is housed in a crumbling country estate where "the physical standards are those of Dartmoor, the religion perverted, and the games mistress a sadist" - and where love between students is the ultimate crime. Into this world comes sixteen-year-old Rachel, a young woman who loves the round symmetries of Latin verse and the melancholy beauty of the Somerset countryside. Rachel is drawn into the conflict between two of the school's powerful figures. On one side is the formidable headmistress, who preaches the virtues of self-control while inviting teachers into her room at night. On the other side is Rachel's classmate Margaret, who openly despises Bampfield, urges Rachel to read The Well of Loneliness and sneaks out for trysts with her beautiful friend Rena. Unwittingly, Rachel becomes caught in a tangle of passions she does not fully understand, a pawn in a moral struggle to which all innocence will be lost."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191).

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

1558612157

9781558612150

1558612165

9781558612167

OCLC:

43114987

Publisher Number:

9781558612167