Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Life and Death of Harriett Frean "A masterpiece." -- Walter AllenA moral fable about the narrow and starved existence that results from self-sacrifice, this novel traces a Victorian woman's…
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Life and Death of Harriett Frean
"A masterpiece." -- Walter AllenA moral fable about the narrow and starved existence that results from self-sacrifice, this novel traces a Victorian woman's suffocating and stunted life. Her other works include short stories, philosophical texts, a biography of the Bront sisters, and several poetry collections. More than a case history of an underdeveloped individual who chooses loyalty to a friendship over the lure of romance, the story criticizes the values of nineteenth-century middle-class society and the destructiveness that lurks beneath the fa ade of good manners.Less well known today than her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Rebecca West, May Sinclair (1863-1946) was considered England's most distinguished female novelist in the years preceding World War I.
Combining stream of consciousness with a traditional narrative, Life and Death of Harriett