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The Ladies Lindores - 1
(Nineteenth Century Scottish Women's Fiction)
von Margaret Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant, Anne Mcmanus Scriven
Paperback, 236 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-45-4, ISBN: 1-904999-45-X

"Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores, serialised in 1882 and published in full form in 1883 by the House of Blackwood, explores the complex and problematic area of male and female relationships. Written later in her literary career, this three-decker novel particularly illustrates Oliphant's thinking on the married state as it affected Victorian upper-middle class women. The Lindores women, Lady Mary Lindores, Lady Caroline 'Carry' Lindores a ..."

Marget Pow(Updated)
(Twentieth Century Scottish Womens Fiction)
von Catherine Ponton Slater, Jan Pilditch, Anne Mcmanus Scriven
Paperback, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-59-1, ISBN: 1-904999-59-X

""It’s a grand thing to live in a land where a’ the folks speak plain Scotch. They say Italian is a beautiful language; so it may be so to them that understands it. But a’body likes the tongue best that their Minnie used to sing hush-a-bye to them when they were weans, and it’s the language they would be fain to hear when they close their eyes in the sleep that needs no rockin’. " Marget Pow by Catherine Ponton Slater is designed to deli ..."

The Ladies Lindores - 3
(Nineteenth Century Scottish Women's Fiction)
von Margaret Wilson Oliphant, Anne Mcmanus Scriven, Mrs. Oliphant
Paperback, 216 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-47-8, ISBN: 1-904999-47-6

"This final volume of Margaret Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores concludes this fictional exposé of the problematics surrounding the question of marriage for the upper-class Victorian woman. Serialised in 1882 and then published in full form in 1883 by the House of Blackwood, The Ladies Lindores is a frank appraisal of the politics and pressures laid on the Lindores women who are expected to conform to the Victorian ideology of female acqui ..."

The Entail
von John Galt, Anne Mcmanus Scriven
Paperback, 416 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-43-0, ISBN: 1-904999-43-3

"The Entail, acclaimed as Galt's masterpiece, is the most ambitious of the Galtian 'theoretical histories'. In his Autobiography Galt states his unease with the term 'novel' to describe his work asserting that : "They would be more properly characterised, in several instances, as theoretical histories, than either as novels or romances. A consistent fable is as essential to a novel as a plot is to a drama, and yet those, which are deemed ..."

Katie Stewart
(Nineteenth Century Scottish Women's Fiction)
von Mrs. Oliphant, Margaret Wilson Oliphant, Anne Mcmanus Scriven
Paperback, 172 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-65-2, ISBN: 1-904999-65-4

"Katie Stewart is a charming tale of a tenacious heroine - the kind of woman most championed by Oliphant - who throughout her life in her family home of Kellie Mill and her adopted home of Kellie Castle, Fife, finds herself much loved. As Katie matures and advances beyond girlish romantic constructs, she finds out what it is to 'put her hand to a woman's weird' and 'keep up her heart' when serious misfortune demands much from her. ..."

The Ladies Lindores - 2
(Nineteenth Century Scottish Women's Fiction)
von Margaret Wilson Oliphant, Anne Mcmanus Scriven, Mrs. Oliphant
Paperback, 220 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Kennedy & Boyd
ISBN-13: 978-1-904999-46-1, ISBN: 1-904999-46-8

"In Volume Two of Margaret Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores, serialised in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1882 and published in full form in 1883, the wisdom or the folly of marrying for money is central to the agenda. Having witnessed the deep unhappiness of her eldest daughter, 'Carry', which is the result of her being married off to a wealthy but boorish mate, Lady Mary Lindores is fearful for the future of her younger daughter, Edit ..."

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