The Third Miss Symons
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The story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, through the ages, have neither married nor loved, the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. Henrietta is the third daughter in a large Victorian family, the misfit girl without the beauty or the talent to be loved. Querulous, bad-tempered, her meaningless life passes aimlessly by. But Henrietta has one saving grace. She knows herself for what she is, and self-knowledge, however bitter, turns her life of defeat into a certain kind of victory.
- Published: Apr 01 1999
- Pages: 160
- ISBN: 9780860681311
Press Reviews
- Independent
Mayor's achievement is to take the 'superfluous female' of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance
- Guardian
As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines
Susan Hill
This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content
- INDEPENDENT
Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance
- GUARDIAN
As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines
- Susan Hill
This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content..