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Clever Woman of the Family
Charlotte Mary Yonge
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"Oh!" cried Lady Temple, with an odd sound of satisfaction, doubt, and surprise, "but I thought you would not like it."
"I should like, of course, to set them all at ease, but as I can do no more than make a home for Ermine and her niece, I can only rejoice that Alison is with you."
"But your brother!"
"If he does not like it, he must take the consequence of the utter separation he made my father insist on," said the Colonel sternly. "For my own part, I only esteem both sisters the more, if that were possible, for what they have done for themselves."
"Oh! that is what Rachel would like! She is so fond of the sick—I mean of your—Miss Williams. I suppose I may not tell her yet."
"Not yet, if you please. I have scarcely had time as yet to know what Ermine wishes, but I could not help telling you."
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Community Reviews
The first 300 pages of this novel is borderline unbearable with its lack of clarification of character or dialogue, but a shift in the back half to a more love story like approach made the plot slow down to a point where what was happening was actually comprehensible
A workhorse of a novel from one of the great domestic novelists of the nineteenth century. Not likely to appeal to contemporary readers at all.
A sweet story, but probably not one for our times. The story could be construed as anti-feminist, given that the "clever" woman needed a tragedy and a man to bring her down to earth. Many readers might hold that against Yonge. However, the inclusion of the character Emaline should contradict that me
She certainly knew how to create characters! The main woman, Rachel, is cringingly familiar, as is the guilt-ridden Alison and the shallow but lovable Bessie. And her children, as always, are a delight - the six rampageous boys and the darling, serious little girl with the terrible secret. The plot
So, Yonge is not progressive for her time. The central thesis of this book is that women need the firm intellectual guidance of wise men so that they don't become ridiculous and dangerously foolish. A woman left to mull things over on her own is a time bomb waiting to explode.
But don't let that sto
Not as absorbing as I found The Heir of Redclyffe and The Daisy Chain but not as grating as I thought it would be, either, given that it's a novel with an explicitly anti-feminist agenda. I knew the bumptious heroine got put through the mill in order to reform her and was kind of wincing in anticipa
I read this book at least once a year. Sure it's old-fashioned beyond words--no matter how clever a woman is, she needs be guided by a man...and "Jew" is used as a perjorative.
But Rachel is one of my favorite protagonists in all literature. Strong-minded, altruistic, and completely tactless, even h
This is an odd little Victorian novel (not, by any wild stretch of the imagination, my favorite genre).
On one hand it's almost a parody of itself: A mysterious villain from the past shows up in disguise, only to be dramatically revealed 2/3 of the way through. Headstrong women are tamed by the powe