Two Sides of a Question

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction, Short Stories

Authors: May Sinclair In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

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The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 1
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 2
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 3
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 4
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 5
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 6
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 7
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 8
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 9
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 10
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 11
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 12
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. I: Inland, Ch. 13
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. II: Outward Bound, Ch. 14
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. II: Outward Bound, Ch. 15
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. II: Outward Bound, Ch. 16
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. II: Outward Bound, Ch. 17
The Cosmopolitan, Pt. II: Outward Bound, Ch. 18
Superseded, Ch. 01: Prologue: Miss Quincey Stops the Way
Superseded, Ch. 02: Household Gods
Superseded, Ch. 03: Inaugural Addresses
Superseded, Ch. 04: Bastian Cautley, M. D.
Superseded, Ch. 05: Healers & Regenerators
Superseded, Ch. 06: Spring Fashions
Superseded, Ch. 07: Under a Blue Moon
Superseded, Ch. 08: A Painful Misunderstanding
Superseded, Ch. 09: Through the Stethoscope
Superseded, Ch. 10: Miss Quincey Stands Back
Superseded, Ch. 11: Dr. Cautley Sends in His Bill
Superseded, Ch. 12: Epilogue: The Man & the Woman

Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In “The Cosmopolitan,” Frida Tancred is a wealthy heiress trapped by family obligation in a dismal provincial estate, hopelessly longing to see all the glories of the world and with no way of escape but the conventional one of marriage. In “Superseded,” spinsterish Miss Juliana Quincey has been teaching arithmetic in a London girls’ school for twenty-five years when she suddenly falls in love with a much younger man and begins to question the assumptions of her life. So dramatically different in terms of characters, plot, and style, both novellas are united in a passionate quest of freedom and a like determination on the part of two very different women to achieve freedom on their own terms. The “Question” of which Sinclair is demonstrating the “Two Sides” seems to be this: Does a woman need a man in her life in order to define herself? In coming to her conclusions, Sinclair explores many layers of human life: art, philosophy, education, science, social class, religion. The marvel is that she is able to do all this in two such small, luminous novels. ( Expatriate)