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A modernist novel following Miriam Henderson as she accepts a teaching position at a girls' school, exploring her inner consciousness and observations of early 20th-century English life with stream-of-consciousness narrative technique.
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What this book knows
Miriam Henderson's consciousness registers, moment by moment, the cost and texture of a young woman refusing to be defined by others' expectations.
self-and-identity
Miriam clung harshly to her determination… her irrevocable decision to break with Banbury Park.
BP-RC-107Life could be happy now… breaking into things, chucking things about, refusing to be held.
BP-RC-108It was here, too, in and out the sunlit days… it spoke in the firelight.
BP-RC-097calling
She did not want that. The dancing forms told her of the absurdity of going back to the long aching days of teaching.
BP-RC-100desire
A single steady unexpected glance from a man who had the right kind of bearing… could disperse all the vagueness.
BP-RC-098If a man could find a young lady who could agree about prices it would be possible.
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