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Virago modern classics volume 273
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English
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"South Riding" is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around the lives of young headmistress Sarah Burton, unhappy husband Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, socialist Joe Astell, and Alderman Mrs. Beddows. Winifred Holtby (1898 — 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding. She was, an passionate feminist, socialist and pacifist...
43) Marriage
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Virago modern classics volume 202
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English
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Understanding that the purpose of marriage is to further her family, Lady Juliana nevertheless rejects the ageing and unattractive-though appropriately wealthy-suitor of her father's choice. She elopes, instead, with a handsome, penniless soldier and goes to Scotland to live at Glenfarn Castle, his paternal home. But Lady Juliana finds life in the Scottish highlands dreary and bleak, hastily repenting of following her heart. After giving birth to...
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