F. M. Mayor
F. M. MayorThe Rector's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

The Rector's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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The Rector's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary has spent 35 years devoting herself to her sister, now dead, and to her father, Canon Jocelyn.

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English novelist.

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Heartbreaking in quiet, unobtrusive way that left me unsurprised that this novel has remained obscure. So many hilarious observations (probably funnier 80 years ago) peppered throughout, I was taken by surprise by the heavy sadness that sank in as I neared the end and realized that Mary, unlike the heroines by her favorite authors (think Bronte, Trollope), would likely not triumph or fail spectacularly.

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