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The characters are captives in a religious environment—sometimes orthodox, sometimes fervently fanatical—and a couple is reunited after many wanderings and an unhappy marriage.
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- The Duchess of Wrexe: Her Decline and Death: A Romantic Commentary
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Superficially, this book is very similar to others of its type and time--a spirited girl comes out into society and must choose between her rebellious and outcast cousin or a conventional young man. Rachel chooses the conventional young man, but as their marriage begins to degenerate, she comes into contact with her cousin once more. She falls in love with him--will she leave her husband and run off with her romantic but weak lover? And looming over all of this is the spectre of her grandmother, The Duchess, an old woman whose powers and health are waning but not yet gone.
- The Green Mirror: A Quiet Story
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The figure of Mrs. Trenchard is the monumental figure of this novel. In her, an inexpressive and apparently commonplace woman, is concentrated all the jealous tenacity of a strong parent who is unwilling to let go her child. Her strength lies mainly in her ability, as the unsympathetic see it, to impose terms on the creative possibilities of those she loves, and she singles out the considerate Katherine as the person whose destiny she wills to govern. When Katherine consents to be engaged for a year, she realizes the necessity of paying any reasonable price to hold her mother and the Trenchards, to win them to Phil. But the mother is like most dominant family-centered mothers, she has no ultimate respect for her daughter’s will. She knows better than her daughter. And Katherine is forced in the end to break the adjustment that was forged for love through years. —The New Republic, December 8, 1917
- The Captives
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The characters are captives in a religious environment—sometimes orthodox, sometimes fervently fanatical—and a couple is reunited after many wanderings and an unhappy marriage.
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Hugh Walpole
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