The Summer of the Spanish Woman

by Catherine Gaskin

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Clonmara the wild, beautiful, Irish estate in County Wicklow is a fitting home for the Blodmore family. Charlotte, the last of the family line, marries a grandee of Spain and becomes mistress of a great Spanish sherry dynasty but the man who took her inheritance has also taken her love.

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This was an interesting look at gender power politics in Spanish society in the 1910s and 1920s, but if the story was reduced to the basic order of events, (beginning with "falls in love with guy called Richard, moves to another country, gets married to someone else..." etc,) it was remarkably similar to Sara Dane. The details, setting, tone, first person narration and characters were quite different, but that basic structure / order of events was.
It was a reasonable read - historically very interesting - but far from being one of my favourites of hers. (I'll admit by the end of it, I was over the main character being in love with someone she actually barely knew.)

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Canonical title*
Das Erbe der Marquesa
Original title
The summer of the Spanish woman
Original publication date
1977
First words*
Die Irische See brandete mit der noch ungebändigten Wildheit der vorhergegangenen Sturmnacht gegen die Küste, und der Reiter kam auf mich zu wie das Donnern des Meeres.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und ich wusste auch nicht, dass im Süden von Frankreich ein Mann namens Meilland eine Rose züchtete, die er "Frieden" nannte.
Original language*
Englisch
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Fiction and Literature, Romance, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
LCC
PZ3 .G2125Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English

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