by Mary Cholmondeley · Nocturna Ediciones, S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416858873
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«Un guiso de lentejas» is a novel by Mary Cholmondeley, published by Nocturna Ediciones in hardcover (488 pages, in Spanish).
Set in post-Victorian England, it follows two friends raised together: one finds her vocation in writing and the other is a young heiress. Their lives clash with rural provincialism and London's appearances, while the story addresses female independence, a theme that scandalized the society of its time.
Work originally published in 1899 as «Red Pottage». Volume 37 of the Noches Blancas collection. Translated from English by Ricardo García Pérez.
For readers of classic English fiction, with special interest in the Victorian period and stories about female emancipation.
Mary Cholmondeley was an English novelist. Her bestseller Red Pottage satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. It was adapted as a silent film in 1918.
