District Governor's Daughters
Paperback 312 pages English Jun 30, 2017
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Written in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel written by a daughter of one of Norway's best-known literary families. Camilla Collett had felt her creativity stifled and her literary ambitions thwarted by society's conventional expectations of what a woman could properly achieve; it was not until she was a widow of 42 that she could finally finish her novel, which she called 'my life's long-suppressed scream'.In an intricate study of relationships, the novel creates a bourgeois society reminiscent of Jane Austen, in which marriage is the only respectable career for a woman. Sophie, the youngest of four daughters of a cynical and disappointed mother, struggles against society's precepts and her own conditioning to be allowed to make an independent choice; but all her surroundings can offer her by way of models are disillusioned wives, lonely spinsters or crazy old maids.
- Author:
- Camilla Collett
- Publisher:
- Norvik Pr
- Publication Date:
- Jun 30, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 312 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1909408417
- ISBN-13:
- 9781909408418