Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)

Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
First edition
AuthorChristina Stead
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1976
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages308pp
ISBN039440517X
Preceded byThe Little Hotel 
Followed byI'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist 

Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) (1976) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.

Story outline

The novel follows the life of Eleanor Herbert Brent, a recent university graduate, living in London and engaged to be married. Over the next few years she breaks her engagement, embarks on affair with a man she meets on a boat, leaves him, becomes engaged again, and then breaks off that engagement as well. She finally marries and has children but finds herself alone when her husband departs. She finds some success on the fringes of the literary world yet never really comes to know herself.

Critical reception

Helen Yglesias in The New York Times found that this "is a supremely English novel, infused with the troubled, cocky and half‐defeated spirit of contemporary England. George Orwell might have written such a book, if women interested him, which they didn't, and if his style was not so flat out." And concludes "A wonderful book. The life story of a British beauty is a metaphor for England in its present hour."[1]

Encyclopedia of the Novel notes that the novel "observes Miss Herbert's career in close details without offering judgment on the corruption and vapidity of her existence. The reader must deduce these from both the abundance of sordid detail and Miss Herbert's incomprehensible lack of historical awareness."[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Miss Herbert" by Helen Yglesias, The New York Times, 13 June 1976
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of the Novel, p1274

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