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(3.9) | 3 | Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic femme fatale, an impressionable student, and a naive teacher. Clare Hartill is a brilliant, commanding teacher at a private all-girls boarding school: the undisputed queen of her own small kingdom. But her tightly controlled world is disrupted when she meets Alywnne Durand, a nineteen-year-old with no formal training. Alywnne's innocence and openness endear her to the secretive Clare. Alwynne is drawn to Clare's intelligence and sophistication. The two women fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship, and begin planning a life together. But their relationship is tested when an exceptionally gifted student named Louise enters their orbit. Louise will do anything to win Clare's approval. Meanwhile, Clare's jealous and manipulative nature slowly pulls Alwynne away from her friends, her students, and her family--anyone, in fact, who is not Clare Hartill. The stage is set for a tragedy that asks: How well do we truly see the people we love? And what are we willing to sacrifice for them?… (more) |
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To E.A.
Here's Our Book
As it grew.
But it's Your Book!
For, but for you,
Who'd look
At My Book?
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▾Book descriptions Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic femme fatale, an impressionable student, and a naive teacher. Clare Hartill is a brilliant, commanding teacher at a private all-girls boarding school: the undisputed queen of her own small kingdom. But her tightly controlled world is disrupted when she meets Alywnne Durand, a nineteen-year-old with no formal training. Alywnne's innocence and openness endear her to the secretive Clare. Alwynne is drawn to Clare's intelligence and sophistication. The two women fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship, and begin planning a life together. But their relationship is tested when an exceptionally gifted student named Louise enters their orbit. Louise will do anything to win Clare's approval. Meanwhile, Clare's jealous and manipulative nature slowly pulls Alwynne away from her friends, her students, and her family--anyone, in fact, who is not Clare Hartill. The stage is set for a tragedy that asks: How well do we truly see the people we love? And what are we willing to sacrifice for them? ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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'The cold night are was like wine to her. After all, for an insignificant spinster, she had a fair share of power - real power - not the mere authority of kings and policemen. Her mind, not her office, ruled a hundred other minds, and in one heart, at least, a shrug of her shoulders had wobble God off his throne; and the vacant seat was hers, to fill or flout as she chose.' In a small English town, just before the Great War, battle rages over Alwynne Durand, an appealing but dangerously inexperienced young teacher. Two women struggle to win her love and loyalty; Elsbeth, her fiercely protective aunt, and the formidable Clare Hartill. A brilliantly charismatic teacher, feverishly adored, Clare's power is great - her abuse of it greater. Greedy for love, but incapable of return it, she compulsively destroys the affections of those she most needs. Clemence Dane, the pen-name of Winifred Ashton (1885-1965), began her career as an actress, taught schoolgirls, sculpted professionally and wrote some of the most successful novels of the inter-war years. Regiment of Women was an immediate bestseller on publication in 1917. Available online at Google Books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/R... | |
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