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This Russian novella first appeared in 1861, under the masculine pseudonym of V. Krestovsky, which Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, who produced a variety of literary works between 1842 and 1889, used for all of her published fiction. It sets out to examine the position of women, and particularly the nature of women's education, in mid-19th century Russia. The heroine is Lolenka, a 15-year-old girl struggling with the difficulties of adolescence. The catalyst for change in Lolenka's life is Veretitsyn, a young man who has been exiled on account of his poetry and who is languishing (in the way heroes of minor 19th-century Russian literature generally do languish) from boredom and from love for the unattainable Sofya Aleksandrovna, the daughter of a local aristocrat. Vereititsyn engages Lolenka in conversation over the garden fence largely to amuse himself, planting seeds of doubt in her mind about the value of her studies. As a consequence Lolenka is transformed, almost overnight, from a model student into a tearful and confused girl who fails all her exams. To make matters worse, her parents are plotting to marry her off. Yet Lolenka survives all these vicissitudes and eight years later we find her in St Petersburg, supporting herself as a translator and a copyist of paintings in the Hermitage. The suggestion, in the muted ending of the novella, is that while independence may not be all it's cracked up to be, it is still preferable to being married to a despotic husband. The translation, by Karen Rosneck, is scholarly with full annotations, if a little stilted - especially in the dialogue. Consequently the conversations sound more surreal than Khvoshchinskaya may have intended. Review by: Victoria Griffin Editor's note: Victoria Griffin is the author of The Mistress: Myths, Histories and Intrerpretations of the Other Woman. (Kirkus UK)

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Celý názov: Boarding-school Girl
• Autor: Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 192
• EAN: 9780810117440
• ISBN: 9780810117440
• ID: 06309826
• Nakladateľ: Northwestern University Press
• Hmotnosť: 212 g
• Rozmery: 131 × 196 × 15 mm
• Dátum vydania: 25. January 2000

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