Write the theme of the story,The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
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Book Review by George S: In 1915 Arnold Bennett commented in his journal about The Lion’s Share, which he had just begun to write:
The novel is light and of intent not deeply imagined, but it seems to me to be fairly good and interesting.
He does not say much more about the novel in his journal, except when he notes that the Strand Magazine have objected to the book because it contains suffragette scenes:
They held a meeting of the directors and solemnly decided that the Strand could not print a suffragette serial.
The book tells the story of Audrey, a lively nineteen-year-old who wants to see the world and experience what it has to offer. Her over-protective father wants to keep her at home, but she is an admirably unprincipled young woman; she decides to steal the hundred pounds that he keeps in his safe and to run away and earn her living by working. She is about to do this when her father suddenly dies of a heart attack. Her mother tries to continue controlling her, but dies soon after. Audrey is now a rich woman, who can do anything she chooses to.
Bennett then takes her through a series of adventures. With a wedding ring on her finger and under the assumed name of Mrs Moncrieff she goes to Paris to sample life, first in the bohemian Latin Quarter, and then on the sophisticated and expensive Right Bank. Two men are in love with her: a genius violin-player and an older millionaire who owns a yacht. With her to Paris goes her friend Miss Ingate, fifty years old and a suffragette who has hugely enjoyed several demonstrations, especially one where she had played a barrel organ all the way down Regent Street. She mentions this incident proudly in the first chapter, and it sets the tone for the presentation of the suffragettes in the novel; they are continually associated with rule-breaking and a carnival atmosphere.
In Paris Audrey and Miss Ingate meet with a community of suffragettes. There are Tommy and Nick, an artistic pair of Americans in the Latin Quarter, and the notorious Jane Foley:
“Jane Foley!” he murmured.
She could see that he was aghast. The syllables of that name were notorious throughout Britain. They stood for revolt, damage to property, defiance of law, injured policemen, forcible feeding, and all sorts of phenomena that horrified respectable pillars of society.
HOPE IT IS HELPFUL
PLEASE MARK IT AS BRAINLIEST
The novel is light and of intent not deeply imagined, but it seems to me to be fairly good and interesting.
He does not say much more about the novel in his journal, except when he notes that the Strand Magazine have objected to the book because it contains suffragette scenes:
They held a meeting of the directors and solemnly decided that the Strand could not print a suffragette serial.
The book tells the story of Audrey, a lively nineteen-year-old who wants to see the world and experience what it has to offer. Her over-protective father wants to keep her at home, but she is an admirably unprincipled young woman; she decides to steal the hundred pounds that he keeps in his safe and to run away and earn her living by working. She is about to do this when her father suddenly dies of a heart attack. Her mother tries to continue controlling her, but dies soon after. Audrey is now a rich woman, who can do anything she chooses to.
Bennett then takes her through a series of adventures. With a wedding ring on her finger and under the assumed name of Mrs Moncrieff she goes to Paris to sample life, first in the bohemian Latin Quarter, and then on the sophisticated and expensive Right Bank. Two men are in love with her: a genius violin-player and an older millionaire who owns a yacht. With her to Paris goes her friend Miss Ingate, fifty years old and a suffragette who has hugely enjoyed several demonstrations, especially one where she had played a barrel organ all the way down Regent Street. She mentions this incident proudly in the first chapter, and it sets the tone for the presentation of the suffragettes in the novel; they are continually associated with rule-breaking and a carnival atmosphere.
In Paris Audrey and Miss Ingate meet with a community of suffragettes. There are Tommy and Nick, an artistic pair of Americans in the Latin Quarter, and the notorious Jane Foley:
“Jane Foley!” he murmured.
She could see that he was aghast. The syllables of that name were notorious throughout Britain. They stood for revolt, damage to property, defiance of law, injured policemen, forcible feeding, and all sorts of phenomena that horrified respectable pillars of society.
HOPE IT IS HELPFUL
PLEASE MARK IT AS BRAINLIEST
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