Escaping the curssed orange
Norma Clarke: Jane Barker, 5 April 2001
Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725
by Kathryn King.
Oxford, 263 pp., £40, September 2000,0 19 818702 5 Show More
by Kathryn King.
Oxford, 263 pp., £40, September 2000,
“... male power, the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey. Like the third storey at Thornfield Hall from whose terrace Jane surveys the landscape, vowing to have her share of life, even if she is a female and ‘poor, obscure and plain’ to boot, Galesia’s ‘garret-closet’ occupies a symbolic space between the life she lives and the life she ... ”