The Beth Book: 1897 Edition - Couverture souple

Grand, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1855062496 ISBN 13 : 9781855062498

Editeur : Thoemmes Continuum, 1994

Synopsis

Written - as its central character says - "for women and not for men", "The Beth Book" presents a picture of a girl-child's dawning sexual awareness, shattering a Victorian conspiracy of silence. Contemporary reviews denounced it for "uncovering sewers" and for the "unwomanly hardness" and "cold-blooded selfishness" of a hero who learns to assert her own interests. A notorious polemicist and suffragist who created the term "New Woman", Sarah Grand was silenced by literary history until the feminist recovery of the 1970s. This new edition makes available for classroom use and for reading pleasure the heroic story of a woman's path to self-determination.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The day preceding Beth's birth was a grey day, a serene grey day, awesome with a certain solemnity, and singularly significant to those who seek a sign. There is a quiet mood, an inner calm, to which a grey day adds peculiar solace. It is like the relief which follows after tears, when hope begins to revive, and the warm blood throbs rebelliously to be free of the shackles of grief; a certain heaviness still lingers, but only as a luxurious languor which is a pleasure in itself. In other moods, however, in pain, in doubt, in suspense, the grey day deepens the depression of the spirits, and also adds to the sense of physical discomfort. Mrs. Caldwell, looking up at noon from the stocking she was mending, and seeing only a slender strip of level gloom above the houses opposite, suddenly experienced a mingled feeling of chilliness and dread, and longed for a fire, although the month was June. She could not afford fires at that time of year, yet she thought how nice it would be to have one, and the more she thought of it the more chilly she felt. A little comfort of the kind would have meant so much to her that morning. She would like to have felt it right to put away the mending, sit by a good blaze with a book, and absorb herself in somebody else's thoughts, for her own were far from cheerful.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thoemmes Continuum
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1855062496
• ISBN 13: 9781855062498
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 546
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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