Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile
Alice Jolly
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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
2019
Walter Scott Prize Academy
recommendation
If you tell a story oft enough
So it become true
As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.
She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart.
Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history.
In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.
Kundenbewertungen
written in verse, surprise ending, poverty, Gloucestershire, phonetic olde English, social change, Victorian, diary, historical fiction, intertwining storylines, Stroud, women, working-class, woman's perspective on history, landscape, struggle, brother rivalry, politics, poetic