Secresy - Fenwick, Eliza; Grundy, Isobel (Editor)

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to bottom inside corner; otherwise appears unread; Secresy was Eliza Fenwick's only work for adults. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella's pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the women's friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book.
Near Fine
Soft cover
Broadview Pr
1994
Orchard Park, NY