The Bride Comes to Evensford

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Synopsis

The Bride Comes to Evensford, a novella first published in 1943, follows a woman from her arrival in a small town (modelled on Bates's native Rushden) to her work for a draper, her marriage to him, her increasing command over the business and the household, and finally to her infatuation with a young man as a widow in her fifties. Written and published in the midst of Bates's work for the Air Ministry, but hearkening back in style and subject matter to his pre-war stories, this is a beautiful study of one woman's life, her hopes and disappointments. Philip Toynbee stated that it had "a fine elegant shape, covering with formidable skill a period of thirty years in only twice as many pages...Mr. Bates is a master of restraint...in a period of over-exuberance."

Book details

Author:
H. E. Bates
ISBN:
9781448215133
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Reader
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-09-28
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1905
Copyright by:
H. E. Bates 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction