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Lädt ... Valentine Grey (2012)von Sandi Toksvig
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I have to say I really enjoyed this book about Valentine Grey, a woman who went to war instead of her cousin. She was indeed a very strong woman who endured the incredible hardships that war impose on it's men and she turned out to be every bit as capable as the men around her! I really can't understand mongoosenamedt's comment about not wanting to read about strong women in historical fiction! That is just ludicrous! There are strong women in every era, they are not a modern phenomena by any means. ( ) I wasn't really going to write a review, but after reading mongoosenamedt's review, I felt I had to reply: do they think that 'strong women' are a construct of modern times? That throughout history there weren't strong women? That ideas about equality and anti-war and anti- any-ism only appeared in the late 20th century? How silly (or young...) can you be? I loved this book, I thought it was something and it turned out to be so much more, and it hit me deeply and made me think about lots of things... one of which is that this book shows yet another example of how our knowledge of history is shaped by the school curriculum :/ "I enjoyed the strong female lead but she's a strong woman who sounds like she could be from our time...which unfortunately is not what I want from historical fiction written so evocatively as this." read more: http://likeiamfeasting.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/valentine-grey-sandi-toksvig.html Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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London, 1897. A young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and skirts in a damp and cold country insufferable. The only bright spot: her exciting cousin, Reggie. Reggie, and his lover Frank seek out the adventure the clandestine bars and streets of London offer and are happy to include Valentine in their secret. And then comes the Boer War and Reggie's father volunteers him. But it won't be Reggie who dons the Volunteer Regiment's garb. Valentine takes her chance, puts on her cousin's uniform, leaving Reggie behind and heads off to war. And for a long while it's glorious and liberating for both of the cousins, but war is not glorious and in Victorian London homosexuality is not liberating... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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