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A Mummer's Wife

Author
George Moore
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
390 pages
ISBN
9781787243842
Published
11 January 2018
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Victorian London
  • Theatrical World
  • Kate Ede
  • Traveling Actor
  • Struggles
  • Desires
  • Realities
  • Public Performance
  • Private Identity
  • Love

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Description

Kate Ede leaves her draper husband Ralph in the Potteries town of Hanley for actor Dick Lennox and the travelling stage. Desire, drink, and theatrical grind pull her from respectable rooms into a harder public life. Moore's realist novel of marriage broken by performance and need.

Author

George Moore (1852–1933) was the Irish novelist who brought French naturalism into English fiction and never quite stopped arguing with Ireland about it. Trained among the painters and writers of Paris, he wrote of art, desire, and the stubborn facts of ordinary life — servants, theatres, and consciences under pressure. Esther Waters remains his most durable novel: a story of a working woman's endurance told without Victorian flinch.

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