|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
5.0 out of 5 stars
Working considered as a sin,
By
This review is from: Quality Street (Pilot Bks) (Paperback)
This is a social play written by the author of Peter Pan. It should be read by people who love Jane Austen. The period is the end of the Napoleonic wars and the setting is an impoverished Britain. A middle class woman, who was expected to stay home, had to work as a teacher during the war. She is ashamed of it. When her boyfriend comes back, she pretends to be an older sister and disguises herself as a superficial belle to please him. But the soldier has been changed by the war too. It is subtle, interesting and fascinating for a generation of women that is expected to work and does not have a dowry any more. The attitudes described in the play persisted through the 19th century and until the 1940s. Highly recommended to teachers who talk about Austen, Victorian times, feminism, social issues...or Napoleon.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Quality Street (Pilot Bks) by Barrie (Paperback - 1977)
Out of stock
| |
| ||
