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The quiet rural life of a Canon's plain, middle-aged daughter is shattered by a passionate love affair in this novel, which depicts her struggle between the demands of filial devotion and her need for the man whom she loves.
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Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary has spent thirty-five years devoting herself to her sister, now dead, and to her father, Canon Jocelyn. Although she is pitied by her neighbors for this muted existence, Mary is content. But when she meets Robert Herbert, Mary's ease is destroyed and years of suppressed emotion surface through her desire for him. First published in 1924, this novel is a rich exploration of Mary's relationship with her father, of her need for Robert, and the way in which, through each, she comes to a clearer understanding of love.
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Flora Macdonald Mayor was born in 1872 and read history at Cambridge. Five of her novels have been published, one posthumously, and a collection of stories for children. But it is this novel, published in 1913 and THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER, published in 1924 which best express her artistic genius. After life-long ill-health she died in 1932.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140182659
- ISBN 13 9780140182651
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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