Wessex Revisited
By Vesta Robson
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As she researches material for her novel and the script of an arts film for television, she is painfully aware of the resonances between herself and Eustacia Vye - the somewhat indolent, dreamy and romantic heroine of Hardys The Return of the Native. Her conscience is stung by discovering the bleak biography of Emma Bailey, who was briefly part of Hardys household. Poor, seduced, weighed down by the responsibility of caring for a young child,she resorts to backbreaking labour and ,ultimately, prostitution, to keep body and soul together, She pulls herself up from degradation to become an art teacher, able to fund her childs education at the Slade School of Art.
Clarissas personal and literary life flourish but problems with her family increase. She becomes alienated from her husband and three children for one reason or another and she begins to question the unalloyed pleasure of the search for fulfilling experiences. Various events, some tinged with tragedy determine the course of the rest of her life.
Vesta Robson
After retiring from teaching English in Sixth form colleges, Ms Robson took up two new hobbies – one which evolved into a post retirement career teaching voice and piano – the other trying her hand at writing. She drew on her experiences as English and Music teacher for ‘Wessex Revisited’. Her second novel is set in the late Middle Ages and deals with the clash of good and evil through the love which develops between a young monk and his pupil , Verity Beale. She has one son and five step daughters and lives with her husband in a county Durham village.
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