Mary Olivier : A Life

Mary Olivier : A Life - Virago Modern Classics

Paperback (14 Apr 1980)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four children. Mamma dominates this Victorian household, idolising the boys, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter: the archetype of all women who control by weakness and suffering. Mary adores her mother- and she hates her. Ferociously intelligent, she vacillates between a passionate quest for her own artistic and sexual identity.

This is one of the first novels ever written about a mother and daughter relationship, and the eternal conflict engendered by the deepest of ties. But it is a celebration too: for though Mary sacrifices her life- and her lover- to the demands of duty, she emerges victorious, finding in the discovery of her intellectual and feminine self an inner freedom, a perfect happiness.

Book information

ISBN: 9780860681052
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Virago
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 257
Weight: 446g
Height: 205mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 25mm