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Herself surprised

Herself surprised

by Joyce Cary

1941MistressesMarried womenMarried women in fictionFictionEngland in fiction
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The judge, when he sent me to prison, said that I had behaved like a woman without any moral sense.

Themes & subjects

MistressesMarried womenMarried women in fictionFictionEngland in fictionWomen household employees in fiction
First published 1941

Setting

England

About the author

Joyce Cary

7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957

Joyce Arthur Cary was an Irish novelist and artist born in Derry, Ireland. His family had been landlords in Donegal since Elizabethan times, but lost their property after passage of the Irish Land Act in 1882. Cary's grandfather died soon after and his grandmother moved into a cottage near Cary Castle, one of the lost family properties. The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North West Mounted Police. Most of the Carys wound up in England. Arthur Cary trained as an engineer and married Charlotte Joyce, the well-to-do daughter of a Belfast banker. After his son was born in 1888, Arthur moved his family to London. Throughout his ch…

Author

Joyce Cary

First published

1941

Pages

220

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

36

Language

English

Publisher

M. Joseph

ISBN

9781910670132

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