Crossriggs (Virago Modern Classics)

by Mary Findlater and Jane Helen Findlater

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860687317
• ISBN13: 9780860687313
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Buy it if you can find it.

Unhappily momentarily out of print, _Crossriggs_ is all kinds of a pleasant surprise. It reads as though you took Austen and crossed it with Louisa May Alcott and threw in a dash of Barbara Pym. This is the story of the Hope girls-- Alexandra, who lives as an old-maid-in-waiting with her eccentric vegetarian father and Mathilda, who moves home to England with her children after being widowed in Canada. Alex is a clever, attractive, independent woman who does what she has to do for other people, and who in the end is forced to figure out what she wants for herself. This was, as the book cover notes, the "New Woman" of the 1890s, somebody whose redemption can come from something besides relationships. Alex is so real, so full of humor, she would be challenging even for an audience of today. I really loved it, and warmly recommend it. Skip the pedantic introduction if you buy the Virago edition.