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何についての本か
イングランドの村を舞台にした小説。二人の姉妹が小さな共同体にやって来る。そのあと描かれるのは、何よりも、噂話と嫉妬と他人の目への怖れが人の一生をいかに決めてしまうかである。
背景と歴史
一八三九年刊。マーティノーは政治経済学の啓蒙家として、またコントを英語に縮約した人物として知られており——その仕事も本目録に収めてある——この小説は通常、その陰に置かれる。読む値打ちは一点にある。村の暮らしを少しも美化せずに素材とし、働き、考える一人の女性を中心に据えていることだ。当時のイギリス小説がめったにしなかったことである。
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walking with their mother when the chaise came up the street; but being particularly desired not to look at it, they were not much benefited by the event. Their grandmamma, Mrs Enderby, was not at the moment under the same restriction; and her high cap might be seen above the green blind of her parlour as the chaise turned into Mr Grey's gate. The stationer, the parish clerk, and the milliner and her assistant, had obtained a passing view of sundry boxes, the face of an elderly woman, and the outline of two black bonnets,--all that they could boast of to repay them for the vigilance of a whole afternoon. Sophia Grey might be pardoned for some anxiety about the reception of the young ladies. She was four years younger than the younger of them; and Hester, the elder, was one-and-twenty,--a venerable age to a girl of sixteen. Sophia began to think she had never been really afraid of anything before, though she remembered having cried bitterly when first left alone with her governess; and though she had always been remarkable for clinging to her mother's side on all social occasions, in the approaching trial her mother could give her little assistance. These cousins would be always with her. How she should read history, or practise music with them in the room, she could not imagine, nor what she should find to say to them all day long. If poor Elizabeth had but lived, what a comfort she would have been now; the elder one would have taken all the responsibility! And she heaved a sigh once more, as she thought, to the memory of poor Elizabeth. Mr Grey was at a market some miles off; and Sydney was sent by his mother into the hall, to assist in the work of alighting, and causing the luggage to alight. As any other boy of thirteen would have done, he slunk behind the hall door, without venturing to speak to the strangers, and left the business to the guests and the maids.…