Set in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers is a novel of possibilities and limitations; of love, marriage and domesticity, and the heartaches and joys of growing up. Fifteen-year-old Marguerite, fresh from her convent education and extremely religious, returns to her family and experiences the first stirrings of love, only to find herself entangled in a complicated net of relationships. The story traces Marguerite's growth through adolescence to maturity and marital happiness. Written in secret and discovered by the author's father after her death, this poignant novel is a unique and unexpected outcome of the intellectual, linguistic, and cultural ferment of nineteenth-century colonial Bengal.
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TORU DUTT (1856-1877) and her sister, Aru, were born in Bengal, but brought up in France. Both girls were poets, as was their father, Govind Dutt. Toru died of consumption at twenty-one; sadly, so did Aru. Beside her own poetry, Toru published a volume of translations--French into English--which included work by such noted writers as Victor Hugo.
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On 2 February 1877, I received through the intermediary of my editors, a letter addressed to me from Calcutta. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mademoiselle Goserelle, Toru Dutt, Sister Véronique, Mademoiselle D'Arvers, Monsieur Viart, Sheaf Gleaned, Monsieur Valpoine, French Fields, Mademoiselle Marguerite, Monsieur Lefèvre, Victor Hugo, Captain Lefèvre, Mother Jacot, Babu Govin Chunder Dutt, Colonel Desclée, Madame Valpoine, Prefatory Memoir, Calcutta Review, Jeannette Corraine, Light Cavalry, Lord Lytton, Marie Bolene, Monsieur Chanteau, Monsieur Lance, October Yesterday New!
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On 2 February 1877, I received through the intermediary of my editors, a letter addressed to me from Calcutta. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mademoiselle Goserelle, Toru Dutt, Sister Véronique, Mademoiselle D'Arvers, Monsieur Viart, Sheaf Gleaned, Monsieur Valpoine, French Fields, Mademoiselle Marguerite, Monsieur Lefèvre, Victor Hugo, Captain Lefèvre, Mother Jacot, Babu Govin Chunder Dutt, Colonel Desclée, Madame Valpoine, Prefatory Memoir, Calcutta Review, Jeannette Corraine, Light Cavalry, Lord Lytton, Marie Bolene, Monsieur Chanteau, Monsieur Lance, October Yesterday New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal by Rosinka Chaudhuri in Front Matter
- Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton on page 17
- Last Days of Pompeii (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Mystical Reprints) by Edward Bulwer Lytton on page 17
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