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Author: Jane Duncan Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447297652 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity. Into this remote backwater come the 'Miss Boyds'-a clutch of flighty, townbred sisters. At first they are figures of fun, but the tragedy that overtakes them arouses all the compassion of the highland people. Full of humour, incident and colour, this delightful novel brings a forgotten era vividly to life, captures all a child's excitement as the world expands around her.
Author: Jane Duncan Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447297652 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity. Into this remote backwater come the 'Miss Boyds'-a clutch of flighty, townbred sisters. At first they are figures of fun, but the tragedy that overtakes them arouses all the compassion of the highland people. Full of humour, incident and colour, this delightful novel brings a forgotten era vividly to life, captures all a child's excitement as the world expands around her.
Author: Jane Duncan Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447297687 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
My Friend Annie takes the reader back into Janet Sandison's childhood. It opens as the death of her mother shatters the bliss of her Highland home. Janet migrates with her father to grimy, lowland Cairnton, where she meets the hateful and stupid Jean, soon, alas, to be her step-mother-and pretty Annie Black. Years of unhappiness are relieved by holidays among the unchanging loveliness of Reachfar. But while at school, Janet finds out about Annie's profession-a discovery that troubles her strong sense of right and wrong.
Author: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786498870 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.
Author: Jane Duncan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Girls Languages : en Pages : 296
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The 9-year-old daughter of a prosperous farmer tells of the arrival of six frivolous old maids and how they disrupt the life of a Scottish highland village.
Author: Danah Boyd Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300166311 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Author: Jane Duncan Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 144729789X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 261
Book Description
'This Paradise community doesn't seem to me to be the secure, feudal, friendly affair that everybody likes to think. There's a change working . . .' As the turbulent island of St. Jago reaches a turning point in its way of life Janet and Twice Alexander are once again deeply involved in the daily life of the community. Many loved Friends reappear and now added to these are the gentle Mrs Miller from Achcraggan, a link with Janet's childhood; the widowed Mrs Miller in the toils of a mixed marriage, and coloured Mrs Miller who becomes Twice's secretary. When a double crisis occurs in her personal fortunes, Janet finds a new maturity.
Author: Elizabeth Waterston Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802086853 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 362
Book Description
Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Jane Duncan (pseud. van Elisabeth Jane Cameron)
Author: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Danah Boyd
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Jane Duncan
Author: Elizabeth Waterston