Paperback / softback
Description
Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four children.
Mamma dominates this Victorian household, idolising the boys, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter: the archetype of all women who control by weakness and suffering.
Mary adores her mother- and she hates her. Ferociously intelligent, she vacillates between a passionate quest for her own artistic and sexual identity. This is one of the first novels ever written about a mother and daughter relationship, and the eternal conflict engendered by the deepest of ties.
But it is a celebration too: for though Mary sacrifices her life- and her lover- to the demands of duty, she emerges victorious, finding in the discovery of her intellectual and feminine self an inner freedom, a perfect happiness.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:14/04/1980
- Category:
- ISBN:9780860681052
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:14/04/1980
- Category:
- ISBN:9780860681052
