Marigold
New English Library/Hodder & Stoughton, $29.95hb
Rachel Weeping: Winsome Smith
Bell Line Books, $12.95pb
Fiction
Reading for hope and change
Two very different heroines represent the morality of their times
by Lyn Kirby •
These two books could stand as period pieces for their times, reflecting rigid moral codes and the limited expectations of women. If we wonder how far we have come towards changing the narrowness of female existence, we have only to compare everything implicit in the expression of the societal mores as depicted here.
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