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Eleanor Bron
A gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre where Catherine is enjoying her ninth and Christopher his thirty-sixth visit to the same play. He is a magnificent young man with flame-coloured hair. She is the sweetest little thing in a hat. There is just one complication: Christopher is 25, while Catherine is just a little bit older. Flattered by the passionate attentions of youth, Catherine, with marriage and motherhood behind her, is at first circumspect, but finally succumbs to her lover's charms.
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Great narration. Good writing. Mediocre story.
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Sad to say that she really had her thumb on the truth behind many religious leaders.
Very Relevant to today
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With examples that may seem subtle today, but which would be apparent to a contemporary audience Arnim explores the cultural revolution that is threatening the concepts of wife and mother and womanhood in the 1920s. She looks at aging and how it effects men and women differently in their behavior toward each other and in how they are perceived by the world. While the desire to appear young has always existed, the 1920s saw the development of industries to promote and champion the promise of youth. She focuses on the purchase of lipstick as an incident. (Lipstick until the 20s was used almost exclusively by prostitutes, face powder being the only acceptable cosmetic for a lady.) Marriage was a demarkation in a woman's life. Before marriage there was one code of conduct, appropriate social activities and clothing acceptable for a single "girl". After marriage, regardless of the age of the now "woman", a different more restricted code of conduct, social activities and clothing was expected. Like flipping a switch, a woman was expected to adjust her attitude, behavior, and appearance the moment she was married.
Elizabeth von Arnim is writing at the beginning of what promised to be a "modern" and "enlightened" era. The 1920s saw a revolution in politics, culture, fashion, and art. So much that had been unthinkable just 20 years before seemed to happen over night and was shaking long established traditions and cultural norms. The roles women played changed more in this decade than in almost a century before. They had been given the right to vote (1918 UK, 1920 USA - Nancy Astor takes her place in Parliament Dec. 1919). They had entered the work force en-masse durning WWI, and as the 20s rolled in they remained in positions that once were almost exclusively the provenance of men - secretaries, clerks, managers, nurses. The concept of the "working girl" captured the popular imagination. Fashions freed women physically from corsets and stays and long confining skirts, and this freedom becomes manifest in women entering the the amateur and public sports arena. None of this seems surprising today - or perhaps it is surprising that a world ever existed when this seemed radical.
Forward for Its Era
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Anachronistic
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I Think Elizabeth Von Arnim is Brilliant
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3-4 star Narrator. I listened at 1.8x speed to make it seem normal. The accent and characters were a little off for me but a solid performance nonetheless.
Quality 1920s deep dive into love
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