Winifred Holtby était une socialiste et une féministe engagée, qui a créé son roman classique comme une critique sociale chaleureuse mais percutante de la communauté agricole aisée dans laquelle elle est née. Son écriture explore les relations complexes et les inégalités sociales qu'elle a observées, en faisant preuve d'un regard aiguisé et d'un cœur compatissant. Holtby s'est concentrée sur l'impact des structures sociales sur la vie des individus, révélant souvent les motivations cachées et les prétentions de ceux qui étaient au pouvoir. Ses œuvres restent pertinentes pour leur analyse sans concession des distinctions de classe et leur plaidoyer en faveur de la justice sociale.
The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change.
The first novel by the author of SOUTH RIDING.
Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm. Yet still she dares to dream.
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Jižní okres je rušný, životem kypící obraz života části Yorkshiru, života, jehož osou jest okresní rada, její výnosy, rozhodnutí, příběhy jejich členů, obchodníků obilím, statkářů, soukeníků a lidí malého města anglického.Postavy a obrazy jsou podány se strhující životností aodvahou, za kterou cítíme soucit a hlubokou lásku k člověku.
