The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett — emotional lives of women
My expectations for The Old Wives’ Tale were — unfairly as it turned out — coloured by Virginia Woolf’s assessment
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Classics
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot — the troubled mind
Any reader coming to The Lifted Veil expecting to find the style of Middlemarch or The Mill On The Floss
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South Riding by Winifred Holtby : tradition versus progress
If I had relied entirely upon the back cover synopsis, I doubt I would have read Winifred Holby’s final novel,
Read moreWhat I’m Reading: Episode 27, May 2020
Time to share with you all what I’m currently reading, what I recently read and what I plan to read
Read moreWhat I’m Reading: Episode 26, March 2020
Time to share with you all what I’m currently reading, what I recently read and what I plan to read
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