District Governor's Daughters - Collett Camilla

Written In 1854-55 And Translated After 140 Years Into English, This Is The One And Only Novel Written By A Daughter Of One Of Norways Best-known Literary Families. Camilla Collett Had Felt Her Creativity Stifled And Her Literary Ambitions Thwarted By Societys Conventional Expectations Of What A Woman Could Properly Achieve; It Was Not Until She Was A Widow Of 42 That She Could Finally Finish Her Novel, Which She Called My Lifes Long-suppressed An Intricate Study Of Relationships, The Novel Creates A Bourgeois Society Reminiscent Of Jane Austen, In Which Marriage Is The Only Respectable Career For A Woman. Sophie, The Youngest Of Four Daughters Of A Cynical And Disappointed Mother, Struggles Against Societys Precepts And Her Own Conditioning To Be Allowed To Make An Independent Choice; But All Her Surroundings Can Offer Her By Way Of Models Are Disillusioned Wives, Lonely Spinsters Or Crazy Old Maids.