Book description
>To present an image of this totally unique writer, we have to
imagine a Jane Austen writing, in the present day, Greek prose tragedies
(in which the wicked generally triumph) on late Victorian themes. In
A Family of a Fortune
she conveys, largely through dialogue (which may be subtle, humorous,
envenomed, or tragic), the effects of death and inheritance on the house
of Gaveston - in particular on the relations between Edgar and his
selfless younger brother, Dudley. This, apart from the embittered
character of Matilda Seaton, is her kindliest novel.> >To present
an image of this totally unique writer, we have to imagine a Jane Austen
writing, in the present day, Greek prose tragedies (in which the wicked
generally triumph) on late Victorian themes. In A Family of a Fortune
she conveys, largely through dialogue (which may be subtle, humorous,
envenomed, or tragic), the effects of death and inheritance on the house
of Gaveston - in particular on the relations between Edgar and his
selfless younger brother, Dudley. This, apart from the embittered
character of Matilda Seaton, is her kindliest novel.>
