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Consequences

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"Consequences" (1919) follows the life of Alexandra Clare, an upper class Catholic girl from London, after she turns down her only suitor.

Alex is a misfit and having failed to meet her family's expectations, she joins a convent.

Partly autobiographical, Delafield writes this story in a deeply ironic tone, turning Alex's plight into a condemnation of the suffocating expectations Victorian society had for women. -

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SAGA Egmont
8726552809 / 9788726552805
eBook (EPUB)
13/12/2022
1 pages
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