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ISBN 10: 1438510934 ISBN 13: 9781438510934
Editorial: Standard Publications, 2009

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The Convert

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This novel, first published in 1907, brings to life Robin's experience and that of her colleagues, Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, in the story of Vida Levering, an upper-class British woman "converted" to the working-class suffrage movement. In a suspenseful plot, Robins contrasts the witty dialogue of elegant drawing rooms with the rough-and-tumble outdoor meetings of Trafalgar Square, recreating them almost word for word from actual accounts. Ultimately, Vida begins to make her own first speeches and out of the tragic events of her past devises a means of effecting women's political freedom. Jane Marcus puts this "funny, moving, and beautifully structured novel" in a class with Virginia Woolf's Night and Day.

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Freddy Tunbridges dinner-hour, was not taken into the great empty drawing-room, but, as though she were not to be of the party expected that night, straight upstairs she went behind the foot man, and then up more stairs behind a maid. The smart, whitecapped domestic paused, and her floating muslin streamers cut short their aerial gyrations subsiding against her straight black back as she knocked at the night-nursery door. It was opened by a middle-aged head nurse of impressive demeanour. She stood there an instant eyeing the intruder with the kind of overbearing hauteur that in these days does duty as the peculiar hall-mark of the upper servant, being seldom encountered in England among even the older generation of the so-called governing class. It stoo late to see the baby, miss. He sasleep. Yes, I know; but the others are expecting me, arent they? Question hardly necessary, perhaps, with the air full of cries from beyond the screen: Yes, yes. We re waiting! Mummy promised cut short by the nurse saying sharply, Not so much noise, Miss Sara. But the presiding genius of the Tunbridge nursery opened the door a little wider and stood aside. Handsome compensation for her studied coldness was offered in the shrill shrieks of joy with which a little girl and a very small boy celebrated the ladys entrance. She, for her part, joined the austere nurse in saying, Sh! sh! and in simulating consternation at the spectacle behind the screen, Miss Sara jumping up and down in the middle of her bed with wild brown hair swirling madly about a laughing but mutinous face.
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Editorial
Standard Publications
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1438510934
ISBN 13 
9781438510934
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
300
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