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The Middle Class Novels Of Arnold Bennett And Marie Corelli: Realising The Ideals And Emotions Of Late Victorian Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
The Middle Class Novels Of Arnold Bennett And Marie Corelli: Realising The Ideals And Emotions Of Late Victorian Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This book builds on the large volume of existing literature that details the social, moral and economic context in which women of this era operated. It further complements the smaller body of existing writing that probes the interior lives of women. However, where as these latter works use personal documents, such as diaries and letters, to gain insight into the interior lives of mainly upper middle- and upper-class women, this study concentrates on women from the lower and middle levels of the middle classes and on the lower classes.
A "Wet Blanket Of Intolerable Routine And Deadly Domesticity": The Feelings, Freedoms And Frustrations Of Hilda Lessways, Arnold Bennett's 'Ordinary' New Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
A "Wet Blanket Of Intolerable Routine And Deadly Domesticity": The Feelings, Freedoms And Frustrations Of Hilda Lessways, Arnold Bennett's 'Ordinary' New Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In a 1911 New York Times review of the second book in Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger trilogy , Hilda Lessways, the reviewer asserted that, as with the entire novel, ‘The attitude of always expecting something tremendous, of being on the eve of ultimate adventure, is the perpetual state of mind of Hilda herself.’ Bennett’s job, as the reviewer saw it, was to reveal this ‘young person’ to his readers. And this he argues Bennett did well for, he adds, ‘here is the girl, her inmost personality, so far as she can see it herself and so far as Mr. Bennett can …