A Struggle for Fame - Softcover

Charlotte Riddell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992817048 ISBN 13: 9780992817046

Publisher: Tramp Press, 2019

Synopsis

SUNDAY TIMES: ‘This vital collection does what the best stories and the best journeys do; takes you out of yourself into other places, other lives’

After the death of her mother and the loss of her family’s fortune, it falls to young Glen Westley to do what she can for herself and her ailing father. Determined to make her own way in the world, she moves from the West of Ireland to London and works tirelessly to succeed as a novelist, despite the limitations her sex and nation-ality represent.

Having struggled so long for fame, it is at last thrust upon her – but fame always comes at a price.

A Struggle for Fame is a brilliant novel of astute and surprisingly familiar observations, still relevant over a century after it was first published. Gen-der, class, affluence and ability are all laid bare under the author’s exacting eye.

This is the first edition of Riddell’s classic three-volume novel to be published in a single unabridged edition.

About this title

About the Author

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), the youngest daughter of the High Sheriff of Co. Antrim, was one of the most successful novelists of the Victorian period. Riddell’s writing is informed by a loss of comfort and social standing experienced as a young woman upon the death of her fa-ther and subsequent move to London, where she struggled to make a living for herself and her ailing mother through her literary talents. At last she found support through a small publisher, and throughout her career, spanning half a century, Riddell produced over fifty works includ-ing novels and short stories. Like an Irish Jane Austen, Riddell is master of witty observation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tramp Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992817048
• ISBN 13: 9780992817046
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420