Kirsteen : The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

Name: Kirsteen
Brand: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
SKU: 9780948877995
Price: 2200 KES
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ISBN: 9780948877995

by Margaret Oliphant

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series ASLS Annual Volumes

ISBN-10 0948877995

ISBN-13 9780948877995

Publisher Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Imprint Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 15th, 2010

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 580 grams

Dimensions 21.40 x 13.80 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Historical fiction

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Kirsteen, from an old but impoverished family, rebels against her father and flees to London. Against the odds she finds work, striving for independence against a world determined to drag her down. Written in the late 1800s, Kirsteen is a startlingly modern novel in its treatment of women and work.

Kirsteen is the tale of a young woman from an old but impoverished Argyllshire family who escapes her domineering father and seeks her independence. Kirsteen''s options appear to be unpaid drudgery at home, or a loveless marriage. Rejecting both, she escapes to London where she makes a living through her own innate craft and skill. Though scorned by her family for choosing to work as a mantua-maker, Kirsteen becomes highly successful in the life she carves out for herself. Kirsteen is a startlingly modern novel whose powerful voice, narrative drive and ironic exposure of injustice and hypocrisy provide a fascinating perspective on women in Victorian society. First published in 1890, and written by Queen Victoria''s favourite novelist Margaret Oliphant, Kirsteen is a deep, rich novel by an author at the height of her powers.

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