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Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
Other Authors: Bristow, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Feminists > Fiction.
Farm life > Africa, Southern > Fiction.
Jeunes femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Féministes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vie à la ferme > Afrique australe > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > General.
Farm life
Feminists
Young women
Africa, Southern > Fiction.
Afrique australe > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Southern Africa
English fiction.
South Africa.
Historical fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. Unable to meet the demands of her mysterious lover, Lyndall retires to a house in Bloemfontein, where, delirious with exhaustion, she is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her female nurse.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xliv, 278 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxii).
ISBN:9780191610653
0191610658
1283222868
9781283222860
9786613222862
6613222860

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