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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
District Governor's Daughters
Verlag:
Norvik Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: N299N65
EAN: 9781909408418
Auf Lager:
5
Zustellung: Mi, 04.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 38.75
Beschreibung
Written in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel written by a daughter of one of Norway’s best-known literary families. Camilla Collett had felt her creativity stifled and her literary ambitions thwarted by society’s conventional expectations of what a woman could properly achieve; it was not until she was a widow of 42 that she could finally finish her novel, which she called ‘my life’s long-suppressed scream’. In an intricate study of relationships, the novel creates a bourgeois society reminiscent of Jane Austen, in which marriage is the only respectable career for a woman. Sophie, the youngest of four daughters of a cynical and disappointed mother, struggles against society’s precepts and her own conditioning to be allowed to make an independent choice; but all her surroundings can offer her by way of models are disillusioned wives, lonely spinsters or crazy old maids.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Camilla Collett
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 312