Jane Helen Findlater (1866–1946)
Auteur de Crossriggs
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Also wrote stories with her sister Mary Findlater.
Crédit image: www.findlater.org.uk
Œuvres de Jane Helen Findlater
Oeuvres associées
The Other voice : Scottish women's writing since 1808 : an anthology (1988) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1866-11-04
- Date de décès
- 1946-05-20
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Scotland
- Lieu de naissance
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Lochearnhead, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, UK - Professions
- novelist
- Relations
- Findlater, Mary (sister)
Stewart, Charlotte (co-writer)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (co-writer)
Smith, Annie Lorrain (governess) - Courte biographie
- Jane Findlater and her older sister Mary are sometimes referred to as "the Findlater sisters." They were born in Scotland, the children of a minister. They were educated together at home by their father and governesses, and had a close relationship that extended to the co-writing of books. Jane's first novel, The Green Graves of Balgowrie (1896) was successful enough to enable her to support the family financially. Of the novels written with her sister, perhaps the best-known is Crossriggs (1908), a light-hearted romance of upper-class manners. They followed it with other similar novels that were highly popular in their day. The sisters also collaborated on two long novels with Charlotte Stewart (under her pseudonym Allan McAulay) and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Their popularity led to a wide circle of literary and artistic acquaintances, including friendship with Ellen Terry, May Sinclair, and Mary Cholmondeley. After meeting Henry James, the sisters got to know his brother William and his sister-in-law Alice while on a lecture tour to the USA in 1905. By the 1920s, their work seemed old-fashioned, and Beneath the Visiting Moon (1923) was their last book.
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Also wrote stories with her sister Mary Findlater.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 207
- Popularité
- #106,920
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 29
I can see why the book was a bestseller when it was first published, but I can also see why it's been out of print for decades. The structure and pacing are baggy and uneven, there are tonal wobbles (perhaps the result of it being a co-written novel), and as Crossriggs progresses the constant moralising combines with an injection of melodrama in a way I just didn't vibe with.
I respect that the Findlaters chose to buck expectations in a couple of ways. First, by creating a lead character with whom we are clearly supposed to empathize, who is independent and intelligent and sometimes charming, but whom the narrative also acknowledges (though perhaps not always fully) is someone who can be bitter, resentful, snobbish, and passive-aggressive. Second, by
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