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They Were Sisters (Paperback, New edition)
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They Were Sisters (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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The main theme of "They Were Sisters" (1943) is that three sisters'
choice of husband dictates whether they have homes, and whether, in
their homes, they will be allowed to flourish, be tamed or
repressed. We see three different choices and three different
husbands: the best-friend, soul-mate husband of the one sister, who
brings her great joy; the would-be companionable husband of
another, who over-indulges and finally bores her; and, the bullying
husband who turns a high-spirited, naive young girl into a deeply
unhappy woman. It is the last husband, Geoffrey, who is the most
horrifying character in "They Were Sisters". Man's cruelty to woman
is a frequent theme in Dorothy Whipple's novels, but nowhere was
there more scope for man to be cruel to his wife than in Britain
before the reform of the divorce laws.As Celia Brayfield writes in
her Persephone Preface: 'Coupled with their financial dependence,
but largely taken for granted because it would have been a fact of
life for Whipple's readers, is the bitter truth that the
middle-class woman of this time had almost no chance of freeing
herself from a bad husband. Even after the Matrimonial Causes Act
of 1937 a divorced woman suffered grave social disadvantages'. What
has not changed is that some men are bullies and some women are
married to them. 'Described as a woman who loves too much decades
before those words became the title of a book about women drawn to
dysfunctional partners, Charlotte marries Geoffrey, a boorish,
hard-drinking salesman who swiftly evolves into a domestic dicator.
Yet his blood-curdling sadism towards his wife and children is
evoked without any physical violence or the use of a word stronger
than 'damn". "They Were Sisters" is a compulsively readable but
often harrowing novel by one of Persephone's best writers.
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