A struggle for fame /
By: Riddell, J. H.
Series: Recovered voices series ; v. 1.Publisher: Dublin : Tramp Press, 1883, (2014)Description: viii, 407 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780992817046; 9780992817046; 0992817048.Subject(s): Women's rights -- England -- Fiction | Novelists -- Fiction | English fiction -- Irish authors
| English fiction -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 823.8 RID Summary: After the death of her mother and the loss of her family's fortune, it falls to young Glen Westley to do what she can for herself and her ailing father. Determined to make her own way in the world, she moves from the West of Ireland to London and works tirelessly to succeed as a novelist, despite the limitations her sex and nationality represent. Having struggled so long for fame, it is at last thrust upon her - but fame always comes at a price.
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 823.8 RID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0089752 |
First published by Richard Bentley and Son in 1883.
After the death of her mother and the loss of her family's fortune, it falls to young Glen Westley to do what she can for herself and her ailing father. Determined to make her own way in the world, she moves from the West of Ireland to London and works tirelessly to succeed as a novelist, despite the limitations her sex and nationality represent. Having struggled so long for fame, it is at last thrust upon her - but fame always comes at a price.