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A city girl : a realistic story

Harkness, Margaret, 1854-1923, author, Sparks, Tabitha, editor

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\"In April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, and calling it \"a small work of art.\" A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class bureaucrat. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who wants to marry her despite her \"fallen\" status. While Nelly's relative passivity and social ignorance distinguishes her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harkness's sympathy for Nelly's position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel. This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on London's East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Subject: 1800-1899 / Manners and customs. / England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. / London (England) Social life and customs Fiction. / England. / England London.
• ISBN: 1554812704, 9781554812707

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR4878.L53 C5 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE