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The Crowded Street (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Crowded Street (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The theme of "The Crowded Street" is one that is familiar from
other Persephone novels: it was then assumed that young women would
stay at home while looking for a husband. Muriel, who believes that
'men do as they like' whereas women 'wait to see what they will
do', lives in a town in Yorkshire waiting - for what? She tries to
conform to the values of her snobbish, socially ambitious mother;
she tries to be 'attractive' to men; and, eventually she is
rescued, by her friend Delia, a young woman who is in some ways a
portrait of Vera Brittain. Throughout the description of life in
small-town 'Marshington', Winifred Holtby expressed her conviction
that young women should be allowed to live away from home, to work,
to develop as personalities away from their families, to shake off
the ties that many mothers seemed to think it was their prerogative
to impose on their daughters.There are other themes, too, which
make the novel fascinating: parts of it are set during the First
World War (in 1918 Winifred had left Oxford to serve with the WAACs
in France) and it was with first-hand knowledge of war that she
spent much of her short life writing and lecturing about pacifism.
Then there are the pre-Cold Comfort Farm scenes: Muriel's sister's
marries a farmer's son and lives in circumstances that would,
perhaps, contribute to Stella Gibbons' satirical gaze a few years
hence. Although Muriel goes away to school, most of the novel
describes her life waiting for life to begin, waiting for a
husband."The Crowded Street" is thus about the need to withstand
the tyranny of sex success. Turn and twist how you will, it comes
to that in the end. This book's conclusion is that 'the thing that
matters is to take your life into your own hands and live it,
accepting responsibility for failure or success. The really fatal
thing to do is to let other people make your choices for you, and
then to blame them if your schemes should fail and they despise you
for the failure'.
General
Imprint: |
Persephone Books Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2008 |
Authors: |
Winifred Holtby
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Dimensions: |
192 x 138 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
324 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-903155-66-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-903155-66-5 |
Barcode: |
9781903155660 |
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