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Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who ‘offers’ and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story. Nor was it for EM Delafield, who also entered a convent for a year; but in her case she was able to find freedom through working as a VAD in an army hospital, ‘which was emancipation of the most delirious kind. It was occupation, it was self-respect.’Like Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, written at the same time, Consequences is a scream of horror against Victorian values; however, its ironic tone cannot disguise EM Delafield’s deeply compassionate and feminist stance.
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Consequences, E. M. Delafield
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2000
- Reliure
- (souple)
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- Titre
- Consequences
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- E. M. Delafield
- Éditeur
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Publié
- 2000
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 1903155029
- ISBN13
- 9781903155028
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Littérature britannique, Féminisme
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who ‘offers’ and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story. Nor was it for EM Delafield, who also entered a convent for a year; but in her case she was able to find freedom through working as a VAD in an army hospital, ‘which was emancipation of the most delirious kind. It was occupation, it was self-respect.’Like Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, written at the same time, Consequences is a scream of horror against Victorian values; however, its ironic tone cannot disguise EM Delafield’s deeply compassionate and feminist stance.