Wessex Revisited (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
After twenty years of what most would consider a good marriage, Clarissa - an attractive, talented, forty-something schoolteacher in the North of England - begins to sense an increasing dissatisfaction with life. During her first research trip to Dorset in...
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After twenty years of what most would consider a good marriage, Clarissa - an attractive, talented, forty-something schoolteacher in the North of England - begins to sense an increasing dissatisfaction with life. During her first research trip to Dorset in the hope of gaining inspiration to write, she meets and falls in love with Sam Melsonby. He reciprocates her feelings and encourages her talent by engaging her as a scriptwriter for The Group, a small, modestly funded outfit producing various arts projects. He is researching Thomas Hardy for a possible film and Clarissa, in true Hardy fashion, feels that Destiny has played a hand in their meeting.
As she researches material for her novel and the script of an arts film for television, she is painfully aware of the resonances between herself and Eustacia Vye - the somewhat indolent, dreamy and romantic heroine of Hardys The Return of the Native. Her conscience is stung by discovering the bleak biography of Emma Bailey, who was briefly part of Hardys household. Poor, seduced, weighed down by the responsibility of caring for a young child,she resorts to backbreaking labour and ,ultimately, prostitution, to keep body and soul together, She pulls herself up from degradation to become an art teacher, able to fund her childs education at the Slade School of Art.
Clarissas personal and literary life flourish but problems with her family increase. She becomes alienated from her husband and three children for one reason or another and she begins to question the unalloyed pleasure of the search for fulfilling experiences. Various events, some tinged with tragedy determine the course of the rest of her life.
As she researches material for her novel and the script of an arts film for television, she is painfully aware of the resonances between herself and Eustacia Vye - the somewhat indolent, dreamy and romantic heroine of Hardys The Return of the Native. Her conscience is stung by discovering the bleak biography of Emma Bailey, who was briefly part of Hardys household. Poor, seduced, weighed down by the responsibility of caring for a young child,she resorts to backbreaking labour and ,ultimately, prostitution, to keep body and soul together, She pulls herself up from degradation to become an art teacher, able to fund her childs education at the Slade School of Art.
Clarissas personal and literary life flourish but problems with her family increase. She becomes alienated from her husband and three children for one reason or another and she begins to question the unalloyed pleasure of the search for fulfilling experiences. Various events, some tinged with tragedy determine the course of the rest of her life.
Autoren-Porträt von Vesta Robson
After retiring from teaching English in Sixth form colleges, Ms Robson took up two new hobbies – one which evolved into a post retirement career teaching voice and piano – the other trying her hand at writing. She drew on her experiences as English and Music teacher for ‘Wessex Revisited’.Her second novel is set in the late Middle Ages and deals with the clash of good and evil through the love which develops between a young monk and his pupil , Verity Beale.
She has one son and five step daughters and lives with her husband in a county Durham village.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vesta Robson
- 2011, 232 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
- ISBN-10: 1456787934
- ISBN-13: 9781456787936
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2011
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