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Title: |
A City Girl |
| Sub-title: |
A Realistic Story |
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| By (author): |
Margaret Harkness Edited by: Tabitha Sparks |
| ISBN10-13: |
1554812704 : 9781554812707 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Weight: |
.220 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - September 2017 |
| List Price: |
24.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
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| In April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, calling it â a small work of art.â A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class bureaucrat. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who wants to marry her despite her â fallenâ status. While Nellyâ s relative passivity and social ignorance distinguish her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harknessâ s sympathy for Nellyâ s position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel. This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on Londonâ s East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women. |
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