A Clergyman’s Daughter
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| Title: | A Clergyman’s Daughter | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1935 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Secker & Warburg | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | A Clergyman’s Daughter tells the story of Dorothy Hare whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.
...She lacks the ability to direct her own life and ends up as a trapped victim in every situation. She is successively dependent upon her father for a home, upon a fellow transient (Nobby) for means of survival and direction, upon fellow pickers for food in the hopfields, upon her father’s cousin to find her employment, upon Mrs Creevy whose school appears to offer the only job available to her, and finally upon Mr Warburton to bring her home.
...Orwell draws a picture of systematic forces that preserve the bound servitude in each setting. He uses Dorothy’s fictitious endeavours to criticise certain institutions... the English private-school system; the way in which wages are systematically lowered as the hop season progressed and why they were so low to begin with; and the life and attitude of the manual seasonal labourer.--Excerpts from Wikipedia [Suggest a different description.] |
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Author Bio for Blair, Eric Arthur
Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English writer. He led a varied life, first as a policeman in Burma, then in various odd jobs in England and France before he concentrated on writing. He is best known for his sharply satirical novels, 1984 and Animal Farm. His lesser known novels include The Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying. He also wrote books about his colourful life. Burmese Days: a novel inspired by his police service in Burma; Down and Out in Paris and London: a reminiscence of his years in the 1920's; and Homage to Catalonia: a memoir of his time spent with the Republican forces fighting Franco's fascist forces in Spain in the 1930's. He was heavily involved in the socialist movement in England. His book The Road to Wigan Pier discusses the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north. We also carry some books containing collections of essays: Inside the Whale and Other Essays, The Lion and the Unicorn, Politics and the English Language and other essays, and Shooting an Elephant and other essays. (Oxford Companion to English Literature)
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