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In southern England at the end of the eighteenth century, Judeth Nugent grows up on her mother's farm, becomes aware of the social injustice, inequality, and petty tyranny around her, and struggles to achieve independence
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About the Author
Betty Burton is the author of JUDE, JAEN, WOMEN OF NO ACCOUNT, HARD LOVES, EASY RICHES and GOODBYE PICCADILLY as well as the acclaimed collection of short stories WOMEN ARE BLOODY MARVELLOUS! She has written for both television and radio, and won the Chichester Festival Theatre Award. Her books are constantly praised for their strong women characters; women with hopes, passions, and an indomitable love of life. She also has a reputation as a very ‘English’ writer, with a powerful sense of English rural and town life underlying all her novels.
From Publishers Weekly
Burton convincingly portrays the rigorous agrarian life in southern England during the late 18th century, and a young woman's unwillingness to accept humiliating marital servitude. At first, precocious Jude Nugent helps on the family farm, but soon she stuns her mother, Bella, by deciding to become literate. Her aspiration irritates those who believe that lower-class females should remain contentedly ignorant and obedient, but a friend enthusiastically agrees to teach the girl. Her refusal to be intellectually or emotionally oppressed by men causes Jude to shun wedlock, a feeling reinforced by the lamentable status of Bella, who became pathetically undemonstrative after Jude's father ran off with a milkmaid years ago. Jude's anguished sister has also fared badly, for her body and dignity have been callously degraded by the tyrant she married. Nevertheless, Jude's insistence on spinsterhood is threatened by her own burgeoning femininity, and by attractive Will Vickery, whose nonconformity makes him her kindred spirit. Burton needlessly switches from third- to first-person narrative during one very lengthy passage, but this story is rewardingly subtle and poignant.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0684187221
- ISBN 13 9780684187228
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages500
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