Hester
a story of contemporary life
by Margaret Oliphant
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"The aging Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, Catherine's favourite, whom she treats like a son. Conflict between young and old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Hester is a masterpiece of psychological realism. In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that mounts towards a searing climax."--Back cover.
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Fiction, Older women, Women bankers, Family-owned business enterprises, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Conflict of generations, Young women, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Young women, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Women, Bankers, Romance fiction, Man-woman relationships, LovePlaces
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Hester: a story of contemporary life
1985, Penguin Books--Virago Press
in English
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Originally published: Macmillan, 1883.
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