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I am always impressed by Burnett's ability to write sweet stories without being twee or saccharine. This is what Edith Wharton would write on anti-depressants.Edited to add on 5/16/19: Goodreads tells me I have read this 11 times. It might very well be even more than that, because I find myself going back to this story again and again, and every time I just intend to reread one of my favorite scenes, and every time I find myself reading the whole thing. I do tend to skip the particularly racist
Free download available at Project GutenbergThe three week read and discussion of Emily Fox-Seton by Frances Hodgson Burnett begins Sunday, May 5, at the 19thCenturyLit group. Emily Fox-Seton includes The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst.This book discussion can be joined at 19thCenturyLit - Literature of the 19th Century.Discussion Schedule:May 5 Part One (Chapters 1 - 6)May 12 Part Two, Chapters 7 - 15May 19 Part Two, Chapters 16 - 24Both books, "The Making of a Marc...
I enjoyed this book so much that I read it within a day and a half. The writing was lush and descriptive enough to enchant me--full of tea and English country houses. I also enjoyed the suspense--are these dark, sinister people from India really dark and sinister? Well, yes. But it wasn't as cut and dried as it could have been, thankfully. I also enjoyed the heroine, who was too good and guileless for her own good, and it seemed she was even too good, at times, for the narrator's patience! Anoth...
Romanzo nel complesso gradevole, nulla da dire sullo stile narrativo ma, secondo me, nn superiore a Un matrimonio inglese che ho trovato sicuramente più "armonico".La prima parte introduce la figura di Emily, una sorta di Cenerentola, un'anima pura, una donna senza alcuna malizia, quasi indigente che, malgrado la vita non le sia stata particolarmente benigna, riesce a cavarsela dignitosamente ed è amata e rispettata da tutti quelli che godono dei suoi piccoli servizi che offre con grande slancio...
Πολύ όμορφο μυθιστόρημα της εποχής του. Δεν έχει κάτι το ανατρεπτικό αλλά έχει μια ιδιαίτερη δική του γοητεία.
I really liked this one! The first half is a fairy tale with an endearing heroine (big, good-natured, poor, and disgustingly healthy), and the second half is a combination melodrama and commentary on Victorian marriage. 2013: I enjoyed listening to the recording of this book from librivox.org.2019: I've upgraded to a recording from Audible.
I love Frances Hodgson Burnett books. She was a very clever women who had to for most of her life had to earn her own and her families living at a time when nice ladies did not do that. All her book portrait life of this time very well and she very cleverly "hides her criticism of society and country very charmingly" as she would say. Of course, there is quite a bit of racism and it is not a book for a feminist, but it is in no way as bad as with other Georgian writers. She was one of Jane Auste...
2.5 stars. I started this book without reading any reviews in my continued reading binge of Persephone titles and forgotten early 20th century literature. So I was in for quite a surprise with this book set out in 2 parts. The first part was straightforward fiction but the second part changed into melodramatic gothic. Throughout both parts the author compulsively writes about two things about Emily, the main character; her goodness and her lack of intelligence. The former was obvious because it
