The Crowded Street
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About This Book
Muriel, who believes that ‘men do as they like’ whereas women ‘wait to see what they will do’, lives in a town in Yorkshire waiting – for what? She tries to conform to the values of her snobbish, socially ambitious mother; she tries to be ‘attractive’ to men.Throughout the description of life in small-town ‘Marshington’, Winifred Holtby expressed her conviction that young women should be allowed to live away from home, to work, to develop as personalities away from their families, to shake off the ties that many mothers seemed to think it was their prerogative to impose on their daughters.
Chapters (49)
- THE CROWDED STREET
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE December, 1900
- PROLOGUE
- BOOK I CLARE June, 1903—April, 1907
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- BOOK II MRS. HAMMOND January, 1914—September, 1915
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- BOOK III CONNIE September, 1915—February, 1916
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- XXXII
- BOOK IV DELIA March, 1919—January, 1920
- XXXIII
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- BOOK V MURIEL August, 1920
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
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