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By Penelope Lively
Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Lively’s most modern masterpiece opens with a image: Kath, ahead of her demise, at an unknown accumulating, keeping arms with a guy who's now not her husband. The picture is in an envelope marked “DON’T OPEN— DESTROY.” yet Kath’s husband doesn't heed the caution, embarking on a trip of discovery that finds a decent net of secrets—within marriages, among sisters, and on the center of an affair. Kath, along with her spell binding appears and informal methods, strikes like a ghost during the stories of all people who knew her— and a portrait emerges of a lady whose existence can't be understood with no plumbing the emotional depths of the folk she touched.
Propelled by means of the author’s signature mastery of narrative and psychology, The Photograph is vigorous at her best possible, the mind-blowing climax to all she has written earlier than.
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The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances 44 xi. The family still resolve to hold up their heads 48 xii. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities 52 xiii. Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice 56 xiv. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings 59 Contents 6 xv.
The Little Republic” of the Family: Goldsmith’s Politics of Nostalgia’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 16/2 (Jan. 2004), 174–96. Dixon, Peter, Oliver Goldsmith Revisited (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991). Select Bibliography xliii Durant, David, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield and the Sentimental Novel’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 17 (1977), 477–91. , ‘The Vicar of Wakefield: “Sickly Sensibility” and the Rewards of Fortune’, in The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974), 148–72.
Readers—many of them women—were throughout the century increasingly drawn to works of fiction that exhibited the moving spectacle of ‘virtue in distress’; one’s own ability to empathize with the misfortunes of fictional others was looked upon as a measure of the strength of one’s own ‘heart’ and of the vigour of those moral principles that in turn dictate the behaviour of our lives. Novels such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa simply paved the way for later works containing even more provocative displays of (usually female) suffering, all designed to draw forth from readers as highly sensitized and as actively sympathetic a response as possible.