Keynotes and Discords

By George Egerton

This series covers texts of women writers whose work is being increasingly discussed in the study of the development of the 20th century and the Modernist movements of the 19th century, placing the works in their context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004ZJINF6
• ISBN13: 9780826481856
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Unmissable new edition of neglected classic

This new edition of George Egerton's (pseudonym for Mary Chavelita Dunne) 1880's two collections of short stories, here produced in one volume, should be celebrated as an important literary achievement. Manchester Press and the text's editor Sally Ledger have taken a brave step in re-publishing Egerton's emotional, dreamy short stories which often end with a strongly tragical punch to the reader's "mental stomach". George Egerton should already be on the syllabus of A'levels and university courses throughout the English-speaking world. She is not but perhaps this book will achieve something more important: getting George Egerton back in the minds of the reading public. She is daring, fresh and, at times and in certain stories, unputdownable.