Forty years on : a novel

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Wallace, Doreen. Forty years on : a novel. First edition. London: Collins, 1958. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear and a smallsquare missing from the front, in protective transparent sleeve. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. 255pp. Contents clean and bright. Doreen Rash (Wallace was her maiden name) was the wife of a farmer at Wortham, Suffolk. She had been born in Cumbria in 1897, became a supporter of the suffragette movement and was a brilliant scholar at Oxford, but her friends were dismayed when she married Roland Rash and moved to a remote East Anglian village. However, during her life she would publish fifty-four books, forty-five of which were novels. In the years after the War, Wallace's novels were popular for their descriptions of East Anglian rural life, especially among the poor, and her sense of place. Although Forty Years On owes something to Richard Jefferies' 1885 novel After London the society she creates in a post-apocalyptic Isle of Ely has many echoes of Oswald Mosley's speeches and writings of the 1930s with its ideas about the need for authoritarian rule, eugenics, state corporatism and utopian socialism. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1681598191194

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