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Marcella MRS HUMPHRY WARD 9781271574582 Books
Interesting but it was not easy plodding through the discussions of the societal problems of the poor and the various solutions tbat were proposed. Marcella moves slowly to the understanding that no solution whether proposed by the rich landowners or by Parliament would help all the poor. Her radical views place her in opposition to the man who wants to marry her and another man who seems to be an ardent supporter. I admired her for sticking to her beliefs but in the end she has to take the middle road for her own future happiness.Product details
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Marcella MRS HUMPHRY WARD 9781271574582 Books Reviews
This book is a Victorian family saga, focused on a family estate, a spurned lover, and a devious villain. Marcella Boyce is young, bright, and taken with socialism. When her parents inherit the family estate in the country Marcella takes up the miserable conditions of the local workforce as her cause. She falls in love with the local favorite son, a Conservative, vying for a seat in Parliament. Socialist Marcella must discover if she can live with a man with different politics, and her feelings on the issue threaten to damage a number of lives.
Marcella shares many of the conventions of the late-Victorian novel. The lead character is intellectually inclined and socially-minded, but her gender ensures that her attention to socio-political issues will either make her look foolish or lead to her demise. The late-Victorian countryside offers no real place for a politically active woman. Ward also gives the reader a strong sense that the best thing for Marcella would be marriage, though Marcella is generally unable to see this for herself. The single woman's folly is readily apparent.
Ward offers a complicated plot and interesting characterizations. That said, I had to pace myself in reading this rather long novel, as Ward is entirely conventional in her treatment of women like Marcella Boyce, and I find Victorian characterizations of women so pat. Oddly enough, I find that to be especially true of books written by Victorian women. It's clear that authors like Mrs. Humphrey Ward were looking for an outlet for intelligent women, but they were still too limited by Victorian gender conventions to be able to revolutionary change in their literature.
Truly Victorian novel.
Too much detail on the social and political conflicts of that period but the characters and their sentiments will keep you engaged.
MARCELLA, BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Mrs Ward in all her novels dramatized the plight of the poor and the failures of the English ruling class. In Marcella, she creates an unusually independent woman, somewhat estranged from a weak father and a cold mother, who takes up the cause of defending a poor tenant poacher who killed a game keeper. This was a hot topic -- the game laws -- critics accused landowners of caring more about their rabbits and pheasants than about their poorly housed, hungry tenants. Two men want to marry Marcella -- the liberal politician and lawyer who defends the poacher, the aristocrat who prosecutes the poacher. Estranged from her fiance, the rich fellow, Marcella moves to a poor district of London and becomes a nurse. This gives Ward a setting for deploring the conditions of the urban poor. After a sufficient period of self-sacrifice, Marcella, as any respectable woman should, marries the best man. Mrs Ward was a popular writer, who drove herself to produce novels, because her family needed the money. This is one of her better novels.
Interesting but it was not easy plodding through the discussions of the societal problems of the poor and the various solutions tbat were proposed. Marcella moves slowly to the understanding that no solution whether proposed by the rich landowners or by Parliament would help all the poor. Her radical views place her in opposition to the man who wants to marry her and another man who seems to be an ardent supporter. I admired her for sticking to her beliefs but in the end she has to take the middle road for her own future happiness.
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