The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury

The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury

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Summary

Bianca Pazzi, illegitimate daughter of an Italian mother and English father, contends with poverty and prejudice to attain eminence and respectability in that most unrespectable of Victorian professions, acting. The story deals with the damaging effects of Victorian beliefs about women.

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The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury

A flawless novel of manners, women and love. . . .Not only consistently entertaining but a valid and incisive picture of how married women of that in-between generation in their forties now, too young to have known the high-kicking 20s, too old to be part of the 60s revolt are coming to terms with the new feminism. In this fine second novel, Cynthia Propper Seton seems on her way to becoming an American Doris Lessing that mistress of self-exploring fiction only softer voiced, less heavy-handed. . .the two of them half-sisters, you might say. Mary Ellin Barrett, Cosmopolitan
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ISBN 13 9780192831149
ISBN 10 0192831143
Title The Half Sisters
Author Geraldine Jewsbury
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1994-07-01
Number of pages 441
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