Deerbrook (Penguin Classics)

Name: Deerbrook (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780141439396

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656 pages2005Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780141439396

Social conditions Fiction Social life and customs Manners and customs Fiction, historical Fiction, family life England, fiction Great britain, fiction Fiction, general

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When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary Edward Hope. Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret, Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry the beautiful Hester. The unhappiness of their marriage is compounded when a malicious village gossip accuses Hope of grave-robbing.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2005
Pages: 656
ISBN: 9780141439396

About Unknown Author

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation." [Wikipedia]