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The Trespass
  
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The Trespass (Audio Cassette)

by Barbara Ewing (Author)
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This historical novel presents a somewhat melodramatic view of life in 1849 London. Both London and the novel are thick with excrement, vomit, social oppression, cholera, and sex crimes. Harriet, a wealthy victim of incest in mourning for her beloved sister, flees London for a clean start in New Zealand, where her favorite cousin has just emigrated. Her crazed father and two gentlemen suitors follow closely behind. Along the way, both Harriet and her suitors befriend "lower-class" women and learn the plight of the poor. It's interesting that in a novel that argues so stridently for women's rights, the main character's only qualities seem to be that she is pretty and quiet. Despite the rather prurient descriptions of Harriet's father's intentions toward her, and the somewhat heavy-handed historical allusions (a character just happens to be friends with Charles Darwin, another is named for Mary Wollstonecraft), the adventure is fast paced and enjoyable. The author's point about the historical roles of women and the poor and the connection between them is also well taken. Marta Segal
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Captivating, Mai 15 2004
Par Carlie (Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Trespass (Hardcover)
This book was very moving. I love reading historical fiction, and I got that with this book plus so much more. This is the story about Harriet, who is sent to the country after a cholera outbreak in London. However, Harriet is worried about her sister, Mary, who is still in London. Certain events lead Harriet plan to run away to New Zealand. This book is simply captivating. The story line drew me in from the start, and it had some twists and turns I was not expecting, but in the end I was glad I bought this book. Get it!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent Historical, Aoû 29 2003
This review is from: The Trespass (Hardcover)
In the London cholera epidemic of 1849, MP Sir Charles Cooper is
worried for his youngest daughter, seventeen year old Harriet, and
resolves to send her away to the country until the danger has past.

Harriet is pleased to get away from her father, but also worried that
he won't send her elder sister, Mary, with her. Isn't she in danger
from the cholera too? (More danger than either of them know, for Mary
has been helping a doctor treat the cholera patients in the poorest
parts of London.)

Harriet enjoys her stay in the country with her cousins, and wonders
at the easy way the family has with each other, for there is a dark
secret at her London home, one she has no words for, because how can
a young lady speak of the unspeakable?

Harriet plans a daring escape to New Zealand, following in the footsteps
of her cousin, for surely even her father's reach cannot get so far
as New Zealand?

This book is excellent, with a little dash of history thrown in now and

then, but without turning the novel into a history book. The main
emphasis is on the characters, and what characters they were. So
realisitic and evolved. I was on tenterhooks the whole time wondering
of Harriet could ever escape.

At a time when women had no money of their own (unless they were lower
class and could work), they were owned first by their fathers and
then by their husbands, and were not even allowed to work, how could
a young girl escape her terrible fate?

"Everything you say is yours, belongs to me, is provided by me,
everything, every breath that you take belongs to me. I am your
father. And as you well know you owe me absolute obedience."

I devoured this book in two days, you just have to keep reading to
find out what happens next. With a wealth of historical detail and
well drawn characters, it's one you'd want to read again.

Reviewed by Annette Gisby, author of Drowning Rapunzel and Silent Screams.

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