We Two: A Novel
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A good fit for
- Literature enthusiasts interested in late Victorian English fiction
- English majors using it as extensive or background reading
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- Read the opening chapters first to gauge the narrative pace and character relationships before deciding whether to read the whole book.
- While reading, note changes in the main characters' positions and how dialogue reveals personality and conflict.
- Read alongside background material on late nineteenth-century British society to help understand the constraints on characters' choices.
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About the author
Edna Lyall (Lyall, Edna, 1857-1903) was a British novelist of the late nineteenth century, and six of her works are held in this collection. Public information about her is limited, and the details of her life are difficult to establish with certainty, yet her surviving works show a diligent writer with a varied range of subjects. Novels such as Wayfaring Men: A Novel, In Spite of All: A Novel and We Two: A Novel centre on the fate and emotional entanglements of their characters; Derrick Vaughan, Novelist takes a novelist as its protagonist and reflects on literary life; The Autobiography of a Slander uses personification to portray the harm of gossip with an inventive conceit; and A Hardy Norseman touches on northern temperament and exotic figures. On the whole, her writing is plain in narration and concerned with ethics and human nature, giving her a distinctive place among late Victorian popular novels and making her work useful for studying women's writing and readers' tastes of the period.
