Marcella - Softcover

Ward, Mrs. Humphry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523769513 ISBN 13: 9781523769513

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"The mists—and the sun—and the first streaks of yellow in the beeches—beautiful!—beautiful!" And with a long breath of delight Marcella Boyce threw herself on her knees by the window she had just opened, and, propping her face upon her hands, devoured the scene, before her with that passionate intensity of pleasure which had been her gift and heritage through life. She looked out upon a broad and level lawn, smoothed by the care of centuries, flanked on either side by groups of old trees—some Scotch firs, some beeches, a cedar or two—groups where the slow selective hand of time had been at work for generations, developing here the delightful roundness of quiet mass and shade, and there the bold caprice of bare fir trunks and ragged branches, standing black against the sky.

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Review:

"This definitive edition of Marcella includes an excellent set of contextual materials on its author's biography, on contemporary responses to the novel, on late-Victorian socialism and social work, on the 'New Woman, ' and on nurses and nursing. Mary Augusta Ward was one of the most popular and thoughtful novelists of her time, so this new edition of her fourth novel is a great resource for readers interested in Victorian literature and culture, or just interested in good fiction."--Patrick Brantlinger

"This definitive edition of Marcella includes an excellent set of contextual materials on its author's biography, on contemporary responses to the novel, on late-Victorian socialism and social work, on the 'New Woman, ' and on nurses and nursing. Mary Augusta Ward was one of the most popular and thoughtful novelists of her time, so this new edition of her fourth novel is a great resource for readers interested in Victorian literature and culture, or just interested in good fiction." -- Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

"This definitive edition of Marcella includes an excellent set of contextual materials on its author's biography, on contemporary responses to the novel, on late-Victorian socialism and social work, on the 'New Woman, ' and on nurses and nursing. Mary Augusta Ward was one of the most popular and thoughtful novelists of her time, so this new edition of her fourth novel is a great resource for readers interested in Victorian literature and culture, or just interested in good fiction." -- Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

From the Publisher:

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1523769513
• ISBN 13: 9781523769513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222