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Author Taylor, Mary, 1817-1893.

Title Miss Miles, or, A tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago / Mary Taylor ; with an introduction by Janet H. Murray
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 466 pages)
Contents Introduction to the Oxford Edition of Miss Miles; Bibliography; List of Yorkshire Terms and German Phrases; MISS MILES; I. Die Goldene zeit des Wardens; II. Hold fast to the Faith without Wavering; III. Heaven lies about us in our Infancy; IV. And Fades into the Light of Common Day; V. De Profundis; VI. The Common Lot; VII. Daylight to Fight by; VIII. And Hope again Elastic Springs; IX. Lonely and Helpless; X. Their Words are Sweet as Honey; XI. Trip on Farther, Pretty Sweeting; XII. Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles; XIII. In the Valley of the Shadow; XIV. The Tumult of the People
Summary The close friendship between Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor began in boarding school and lasted for the rest of their lives. It was Mary Taylor, in fact, who inspired Bronte to leave her oppressive parsonage home and go to Brussels, the eventual setting for her novel, Villette. Mary herself led a much less restricted life, especially in her later years as a feminist essayist who strongly urged women to consider their "first duty" to be working to support themselves. In Miss Miles, her only novel, Taylor breaks with tradition by creating a profoundly feminist and morally intense wor
Analysis English fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi)
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Subject Friendship -- Fiction
FICTION -- Coming of Age.
Friendship
Genre/Form Bildungsromans
Fiction
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Form Electronic book
Author Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-
LC no. 90031290
ISBN 9780198023272
0198023278
9786610605521
6610605521
1280605529
9781280605529
0195362349
9780195362343
Other Titles Miss Miles
Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago
Miss Miles
Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago
Miss Miles
Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago
Miss Miles
Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago
Miss Miles
Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago