Heartsease or Brother's Wife

Hardcover, 664 pages

English language

Published June 9, 2003 by IndyPublish.com.

ISBN:
978-1-4043-6563-6
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4 stars (1 review)

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4 stars

If you can't stand Christian redemption or the glorification of self-denial maybe you don't want to spend any time with Charlotte M. Yonge. There's a lot of that. The n-word is also sprinkled in here in a way I haven't noticed in her other works so be aware that's going to happen.

Having read most of her work this is a minor one but it's pretty interesting in addressing:

--living with chronic and acute illness
--poorly considered marriages and how they can be redeemed
--awkward class dynamics created by marrying down
--differences in character: Yonge is always attentive to how people have their own paths based on personality and therefore very different struggles
--the appropriate role of influence in women's friendships
--disability (there's an intellectually disabled minor character and one who's deaf and mute)

If you want the full Yonge experience starting with The Clever Woman of the Family or …

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