- Fiction, Mothers and sons, Unmarried mothers, England in fiction
Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother. Esther Waters is one of a group of Victorian novels that depict the life of a "fallen woman"."
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- George Moore
- First published
- 1894
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Press, C.H. Sergel, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 374
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798800419740
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