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Crowded Street

By Winifred Holtby

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Crowded Street

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'They promise us all sorts of things,' she said, 'happiness, success, adventure - don't you know? Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . . ' This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden to her. Pretty, but not pretty enough, she fails to achieve the one thing required of her - to find a suitable husband. Then comes the First World War, a watershed which tragically revolutionises the lives of her generation. But for Muriel it offers work, friendship, freedom, and one last chance to find a special kind of happiness . . . Winifred Holtby (1891-1935), novelist, journalist and critic, was born at Rudstone, Yorkshire. With the exception of South Riding, this is her most successful novel; powerfully tracing one woman's search for independence and love, it echoes in fictional form the years autobiographically recorded by her close friend Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
278
Release Date:
1981-11-19
Publication Date:
1981-11-19
Publisher:
Hachette UK Distribution
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0860682080
ISBN13:
9780860682080
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[email protected]
Weight:
272 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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