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Paperback A Drama in Muslin Book

ISBN: 0861400569

ISBN13: 9780861400560

A Drama in Muslin: A Realistic Novel

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Always an ambitious novelist, George Moore realized early in the composition of his third novel, A Drama in Muslin, how his chosen subject - the sentimental education of five girls born into the gentry of the West of Ireland - could be extended to encompass a study of the prevailing social conditions of the Irish people, who were desperate for political change and growth. Written in the mid 1880s, the novel reflects the unease of the times when the activities of the Land League began increasingly to jeopardize the security of the landlords and expose the artificiality and moral inadequacies of their way of life, centered on the annual Dublin seasons and receptions at the Castle. Fresh from their convent school, Alice and Olive Barton, with the aid of their mother (one of Moore's most brilliant portraits), are set in quest of their identities and in pursuit of a husband, for as Mrs Barton asserts 'Marriage gives a girl liberty, gives her admiration, gives her success, a woman's whole position depends upon it'. Alice, the more observant and intelligent of the two, quickly appreciates how completely their choices in life are conditioned by the social tensions of the age, which render words like 'liberty' and 'success' meaningless.

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