The yellow leaf : a study from life / by Sarah Grand ; with a preface by the author
- Bib ID:
- 8172066
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Grand, Sarah, author
- Description:
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- Hamley Bridge, South Australia : Michael Walmer, 2019
- iv, 96 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780648590583 (hardback)
- Summary:
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This dramatic novella is split into two parts. In the first, a young woman of 'New Woman' convictions makes a train journey to conservative connections in the country. On board the train she encounters the spirited niece of this family who has been looked after by them while her parents are away, but who well understands their limitations. Adalesa Shutt is determined, energetic, critically thoughtful and shares the narrator's opinions about the equality of women. The daughter of the house, Evangeline Marsh, and her formidable mother, Lady Marsh, find the narrator and Adalesa to be hopelessly mistaken with regard to what is important in life. A ball that the three young women hold brings boiling to the surface their differences, and events there prove to have crucial consequences for their further lives. The second part occurs many years later. The narrator and Adalesa again return to the Marshes' home at the same time, in a strange echo of the previous visit so long ago. How will the now elderly Lady Marsh and middle-aged Evangeline receive them? Will a ball the three women again plan to hold together revive old feelings? How will each of their approaches to life have determined their outcomes?
- Notes:
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- 'The sere, the yellow leaf' first published in the Pall Mall Magazine September to November 1893.
- First published in book form in Our Manifold Nature as 'The yellow leaf' 1894.
- Subject:
- Available From:
- 01628853
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1918
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1893
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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