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Cargando... Not Like Other Girls (1884)por Rosa Nouchette Carey
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Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909) was a British author. As a child she entertained her siblings with improvised tales, wrote plays and poetry and started a magazine. Her first published novel was Nellie's Memories (1868). She wrote around 40 domestic melodramas. Her fictional themes tend to revolve around the condition and anxieties of woman in her roles of mother, daughter and sister. She wrote short stories, many of which were published under the auspices of the Religious Tract Society. Some of her works were produced under the pseudonym of "Le Voleur. " Amongst her other works are Not Like Other Girls (1884), For Lilias (1885), Uncle Max (1887), Esther: A Book for Girls (1887), Only the Governess (1888), Merle's Crusade (1889), Our Bessie (1891), For Love of a Bedouin Maid (1897), Herb of Grace (1901) and 'No Friend Like a Sister' (1906). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Resourceful and eager to avoid the hideous ways of the genteel poor, Nan, Phillis and Dulce determine to work for their living and open a dressmaking establishment even if this means that they have to get on their hands and knees and measure the grotesque proportions of the local butcher’s wife. “When gentlepeople are poor they must work for their bread; when one has ten clever fingers, it is better to use them than to starve.”
And so from a comfortable life they must descend to a working life. From the oppressor class they move to that of the oppressed, if Miss Nouchette Carey was following her Marx and Engels closely, and they must compete with other workers to earn a living wage. Consternation – nice people working for their living pass the sal volatile! – admirers and success follow in their wake along with a few surprises. Altogether intriguing, I’m glad they weren’t like other girls.