Paperback. 'Well, I'm glad my little girl didn't snatch and push. It's better to go without than to take from other people. That's ugly.'Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, renunciation of this unworthy passion initially brings her a peculiar sort of happiness. But the passing of time reveals a different truth. Ironic, brief and intensely realised, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) is a brilliant study of female virtue seen as vice, and stands with the work of Virgina Woolf and Dorothy Richardson as one of the great innovative novels of the century. * Spare and deft, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is the quintessential modernist novel* Sinclair's work is hugely important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Life And Death Of Harriett Frean (Paperback)
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, London
Publication Date: 1980
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0860681068
ISBN 13: 9780860681069
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is a quintessentially modernist novel. Sinclair's work is important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives

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Born in Liverpool in 1863, May Sinclair had no formal education until the age of 18. She worked with Cicely Hamilton and Violet Hunt for the Suffragist cause and wrote a total of 24 novels in addition to philosophical works, poetry and criticism. She died in 1932.

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