Life and Death of Harriet Freane
A Fiction, Classics, British Literature book. I reread The Life and Death of Harriett Frean for my thesis, as Sinclair is an author whom...
“In a few short pages,” writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, “May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.” Young Harriett Frean is taught that “behaving beautifully” is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer ofstream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychological novel. Evoking the style and depth of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair’s haunting narrative also reflects her keen interest in the theories of Jung and Freud. The text of this Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery was set...
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- Pages: 184 pages
- ISBN: 9780140161458 / 140161457
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REVIEW FULL OF SPOILERSHarriett Frean is an only child and she thinks highly of her papa and her mamma. As she grows older, she starts to think highly of herself. In her mind she is above all of her friends because her father is intellectual, her mother is elegant and she (herself) is such a good child. later in life, she falls in love... I reread The Life and Death of Harriett Frean for my thesis, as Sinclair is an author whom I am focusing on. I loved the book the first time around, and my second encounter with it was no different. First published in 1922, elements of the novella feel incredibly modern. I love the way in which Harriett is followed from her early childhood... You may read online at UPenn
