The Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classic) - Softcover

Mayor, F. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140161791 ISBN 13: 9780140161793

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1988

Synopsis

Miss MAYORS story is of a delicate quality, not common here, though occurring at intervals, and always sure of a choice, if not very large, audience among those who like in art the refined movement and the gentle line. Her subject, like her method, is one not commonly chosen by women writers; it is simply the life of an unmarried idle woman of the last generation, a life (to some eyes) of wasted leisure and deep futility, but common enough, and getting from its permitted commonness a justification from life, who is wasteful but roughly just. Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession.
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Review:

Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance (INDEPENDENT)

As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines (GUARDIAN)

This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content.. (Susan Hill)

Book Description:

*A marvellous, moving novel of solitude, spinsterhood and, above all, triumph.
*An extraordinary many faceted account of one woman, and the richness of her being.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140161791
• ISBN 13: 9780140161793
• Binding: Paperback