Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley, Fiction, Classics, Literary
Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband). Hester, a novelist, lives with her judgmental brother, the pompous vicar of the fictional village of Warpington. Hester's brother disapproves of her writing and eventually burns the manuscript of a novel she has been writing. I will break it off, says Hugh Scarlett to himself. Thank Heaven, not a soul has ever guessed it. He thinks of the day he fir…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60664-206-1
- EAN: 9781606642061
- Produktnummer: 4047947
- Verlag: Aegypan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 440 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 440
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Mary Cholmondeley (1859 - 1925) was an English novelist. She began writing with serious intent in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, What a pleasure and interest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not marry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some definite occupation, besides the home duties. She succeeded in publishing some stories in The Graphic and elsewhere. Her first novel was The Danvers Jewels (1887), a detective story that won her a small following. It appeared in the Temple Bar magazine published by Richard Bentley, after fellow novelist Rhoda Broughton had introduced her to George Bentley. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest (1893) and A Devotee (1897).The satirical Red Pottage (1899) was a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic and is reprinted occasionally. It satirizes religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life and was denounced from a London pulpit as immoral. It was equally sensational because it explored the issues of female sexuality and vocation, recurring topics in late-Victorian debates about the New Women. Despite the book's great success, however, the author received little money for it because she had sold the copyright.
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