The Heavenly Twins (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) |  | Author: Sarah Grand
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 398179
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0472065084
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780472065080
ASIN: 0472065084
Publication Date: March 1, 1993
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A fascinating exploration of gender issues and feminist agendas of the New Woman movement of the late 1800s
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All excitements run to love in women of a certain--let us not say age, but youth, says the professor. "An electrical current passing through a coil of wire makes a magnet of a bar of iron lying within it, but not touching it. So a woman is turned into a love-magnet, by a tingling current of life running round her. I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted, and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south, as she would if the love-currents are like those of the earth, our mother."
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WHY has Sarah Grand been ignored this century? July 5, 1998
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you are a Victorian novel aficianado as I am, you should thoroughly enjoy Sarah Grand's sprawling, strange story. The eponymous twins are bizarrely, intriguingly atypical as far as nineteenth-century characters go. Grand gives a picture of feminism in its embryonic stage--the woman was certainly before her time, as are most of her female characters. Fear not, however; this is no simple "men-bad-women-good" tale. Nastiness and nurture are fairly evenly distributed between the sexes. Although the story meanders at times between its main branches, it is well-written and worth resurrecting for the 1990s. My main quibble is that Grand's voice tends to take over at certain moments (especially when she's getting angry about her society). But please read this book anyway, especially for its shockingly non-Victorian ending.
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