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Obras de Emily Eden

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Nombre canónico
Eden, Emily
Fecha de nacimiento
1797-03-03
Fecha de fallecimiento
1869-08-05
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Westminster, London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
India (1836-1869)
England, UK
Ocupaciones
poet
novelist
Diarist
travel writer
Relaciones
Eden, Anthony (great-great-grandnephew)
Eden, William (father)
Eden, Fanny (sister)
Biografía breve
Emily Eden was born in London, England, a daughter of Eleanor Elliot and William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. She was one of 14 siblings, including Frances "Fanny" Eden and George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland. She never married, and along with her sister accompanied their brother to India during his term as Governor-General in 1835–1842. She wrote popular works about India, and her celebrated travel accounts, diary, and published letters give colorful insights into the daily life of the British Raj in India prior to the Mutiny of 1857. She was also a successful novelist as the author of two witty and satirical works, The Semi-Attached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). She moved in the highest circles of British society and entertained the celebrities of the day, including her close friend Lord Melbourne. The 2003 novel One Last Look by Susanna Moore was inspired in part by the journals and private papers of Emily Eden and Fanny Eden.

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Debates

Group read: The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden en Virago Modern Classics (Febrero 2018)
Group read: The Semi-Attached Couple en Virago Modern Classics (enero 2018)

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A pleasant little story, with a happy ending for all of the characters involved. A Lady Chester takes a house in a suburb of London, while her husband is attending to a diplomatic assignment in Berlin. The house is semi-detached, which I picture as a kind of duplex, and the Lady is worried that her neighbors are going to be tiresome. Nothing of the sort, as they all end up getting along ever so well. There is a Baron and Baroness Sampson in the neighborhood, too, who are pretentious and cons, and they are always throwing parties, trying to get in with the best crowds. An amusing part was when the wife of one of the Baron Sampson's con friends sings a song at the baroness' parties. It goes like this:

"Yes sir! I can waltz! I can flirt! I'm out of the schoolroom at last! Pa' says I'm a romp, Ma' says I'm a pert, I say, I am fast! I am fast!
We girls love a park! It's the men who are stiff. Why that little Lord John's such a tease, If I ask him to dance, he turns off in a Tiff, Last, sir! That is ease! That is ease!
I handle the ribbons! I smoke my cigar! I polk till Aunt Jane looks aghast. I swim like a fish! Ride like young Lochinvar! In short, I am fast! I am fast!
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burritapal | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 23, 2022 |
This is a cute little story, about a bunch of rich people in Victorian England. There is Mr and Mrs Douglas and their two daughters, which family is not quite as rich as neighbors, Lord and Lady Eskdale, and their four children. Mrs Douglas is a sour grapes-sort of person, but it all comes out Happy in the end. Not a very realistic book, but still fairly enjoyable.
 
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burritapal | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 23, 2022 |
I don't know how I haven't heard of EE before; she's really the next best thing when accepting the tragedy of Jane Austen not writing more books.

Elizabeth Klett's Librivox recording is also VERY good.
 
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beautifulshell | 7 reseñas más. | Aug 27, 2020 |
Two 19th century novels:
My favourite was definitely the former- published 1859 but written thirty years before, and with a definite Jane Austen flavour to the story of an aristocratic newly-wed couple, struggling to get used to their new life. Watched (and constantly criticized) by their poorer, jealous neighbour Mrs Douglas; and given additional stresses in their married life by the trouble-making comments of the truly ghastly, self-aggrandizing Lady Portmore, there are moments of laugh-out-loud humour.
The Semi-Detached House is more of a typical Victorian story, as Lady Blanche Chester (reluctantly taking such a residence while her husband is away) finds her neighbours much nicer than she had anticipated, and all ends well.
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½
 
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starbox | 6 reseñas más. | Mar 24, 2019 |

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Obras
8
Miembros
702
Popularidad
#36,077
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
21
ISBNs
54
Idiomas
2

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