◇英文原版小说 Alas, Poor Lady Rachel Ferguson First edition 1937 /老版本
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Alas, Poor Ladyby Rachel Ferguson
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First edition 1937,Jonathan Cape LTD, London
Hardcover 463 pages，32开精装本
By the time Rachel Ferguson wrote Alas, Poor Lady in 1937 it was possible to look back with horror and disbelief at what had happened to the daughters of extravagantly large Victorian families who did not manage, through ineptitude or plainness or bad luck, to catch a husband.
This novel is in the Lytton Strachey tradition of furious anger with those who had gone before. There were thousands of women who had been condemned to become distressed gentlefolk, dependent for their livelihood (unless they had been fortunate enough to inherit wealth) to seek work as governesses and companions, often in families that did not treat them well. When they could not find work they were reduced to virtual penury.
The finger of blame in Alas, Poor Lady is cast less at the men (since the system favoured them in all respects why would they seek to change it?) but at the matriarch who is too lazy, too unthinking to want to change things for her numerous daughters. It is Mrs Scrimgeour in her large house in Kensington who is the real culprit, being selfish, evasive and lacking in any concern for her daughters beyond that of trying to make sure they fulfil society’s expectations of them. She fails to train them to be attractive to men or to find ways of occupying themselves; the most important thing, her daughters wearily accept, is that ‘a family of your own, one saw, saved your face’.
At the time of the 1911 census, when Grace Scrimgeour is 40, 30% of women were unmarried. Alas, Poor Lady focuses on society’s failure to provide for this third, or to consider these spinsters anything but an embarrassment. ‘The fear of tomorrow and all the tomorrows filled her. The time there was! Whereas men filled it to the brim, a woman’s life was one of eternal waiting, to be taken out, called on, danced with or proposed to. How had it originated, this division of opportunity?’
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