The Crowded Street Paperback / softback
by Winifred Holtby
Part of the Virago Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
'They promise us all sorts of things,' she said, 'happiness, success, adventure - don't you know?
Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . . 'This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village.
A career is forbidden to her. Pretty, but not pretty enough, she fails to achieve the one thing required of her - to find a suitable husband.
Then comes the First World War, a watershed which tragically revolutionises the lives of her generation.
But for Muriel it offers work, friendship, freedom, and one last chance to find a special kind of happiness . . . Winifred Holtby (1891-1935), novelist, journalist and critic, was born at Rudstone, Yorkshire.
With the exception of South Riding, this is her most successful novel; powerfully tracing one woman's search for independence and love, it echoes in fictional form the years autobiographically recorded by her close friend Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:19/11/1981
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- ISBN:9780860682080
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:19/11/1981
- Category:
- ISBN:9780860682080