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By Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe

Scottish novelist Jane Duncan’s semiautobiographical My Friends sequence was once pushed aside by means of postwar critics as light-weight, at a time whilst a coterie of “angry younger males” monopolized the eye of the British publishing institution. but deeper subject matters are at play within the 19 novels. glossy readers will realize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging exam of women’s schooling and paintings within the twentieth century, a woman’s view of the emerging societal tensions of the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties, and an outsider’s standpoint at the racial divide within the soon-to-be-independent West Indies.
This e-book explores Duncan’s physique of labor, out of print for many years, even though sought by means of dependable fanatics. Her characters run the gamut—drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, individuals of the London speedy set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling element. Her novels—two of them lately reprinted for a brand new generation—reveal a captivating and perceptive recorder of the adjustments nice Britain underwent long ago century.

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