Sister Gertrude: A Tale of the West Riding: Victorian Yorkshire Regional Fiction of Faith, Duty, Community, and Conscience - Couverture souple

Sykes, D. F. E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 802729729X ISBN 13 : 9788027297290

Editeur : Good Press, 2022

Synopsis

Sister Gertrude: A Tale of the West Riding is a regional Victorian narrative attentive to the moral pressures, social textures, and religious feeling of Yorkshire life. Set amid the distinctive communities of the West Riding, the tale combines domestic drama with local colour, using place not merely as background but as a shaping force in character and conscience. Its style is earnest, descriptive, and morally searching, belonging to the nineteenth-century tradition of provincial fiction in which private conduct reflects wider questions of class, faith, duty, and communal obligation. D. F. E. Sykes was closely associated with the West Riding, and his knowledge of its towns, people, speech, and history gives the book its particular authority. As a local historian and writer deeply interested in Yorkshire society, he was well placed to transform regional observation into fiction. His work reflects the concerns of an author alert to both the dignity and the hardship of provincial life. This book is recommended to readers interested in Victorian regional fiction, Yorkshire literature, and narratives where moral seriousness is joined to a strong sense of place. It rewards those who value historically grounded storytelling and the careful depiction of community, conscience, and character.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Good Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 802729729X
• ISBN 13: 9788027297290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible