The Chinese Garden

Portada
Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000 - 189 pàgines

A "very intelligent, sensitive, and compelling" novel of adolescent rebellion and sexual awakening at a girls' boarding school (Anthony Burgess).

Set in a repressive British girls' boarding school in the late 1920s--where not only sexuality but femininity is squashed--Rosemary Manning's "wonderful" 1962 novel is the coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Rachel, a sensitive, bright, and innocent student (The Guardian). Rachel finds refuge from the Spartan conditions, strict regime, fierce discipline, and formidable headmistress at Bampfield in a secret garden. She also finds friendship there, with a rebellious girl named Margaret.

As Margaret has her mind expanded by a scandalous tome entitled The Well of Loneliness, she engages in a bold, forbidden act--the ultimate transgression at Bampfield--and Rachel is drawn into the turmoil. Confronted with the persecution of her friend and troubled by a growing awareness of her own sensuality, Rachel faces an impossible choice that drives her to desperate measures.

Selected as one of the Top 10 Lesbian Books by the Guardian, "Rosemary Manning's unjustly forgotten novel is a deft depiction of innocence and the forces of hypocrisy, paranoia, and self-hatred that betray innocence" (Lillian Faderman, author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers).

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CHAPTER ONE
7
CHAPTER TWO
15
CHAPTER THREE
20
CHAPTER FOUR
28
CHAPTER FIVE
33
CHAPTER SIX
39
CHAPTER SEVEN
45
CHAPTER EIGHT
49
CHAPTER TWELVE
95
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
101
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
116
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
134
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
139
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
144
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
156
AFTERWORD
161

CHAPTER NINE
64
CHAPTER TEN
75
CHAPTER ELEVEN
81
Notes
185
Works Cited
189
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Sobre l'autor (2000)

Rosemary Manning (1911-1988) was the author of six novels, many of them set in her native West Country of England, and two volumes of autobiography.

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