A Quiet Tide (eBook)

Marianne Lee (Autor)

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2020
396 Seiten
New Island Books (Verlag)
978-1-84840-755-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Unmarried, childless and sickly, Ellen Hutchins was considered an ''unsuccessful'' woman, dutifully bound to her family''s once grand and isolated estate, Ballylickey House in County Cork.And yet, by the time of her death in 1815, Ireland''s first female botanist, self-taught and determined to make her mark, had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay.In Marianne Lee''s remarkable debut novel, Ellen''s rich but tormented inner life is reclaimed from the repression by gender, class and politics of her time, stealing glimpses of the happiness and autonomy she could never quite articulate. As she reaches for meaning and expression through her work, the eruption of a long-simmering family feud and the rise of Ellen''s own darkness – her ''quiet tide'' – threaten to destroy her already fragile future.A Quiet Tide is a life examined, a heart-breaking, haunting story that at last captures the essence and humanity of a long forgotten Irishwoman.

Autor

Marianne Lee grew up in Tullamore, Co. Offaly and now lives in Dublin with her husband. She has a degree in Visual Communications from the National College of Art and Design and an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. Marianne works as a designer and copywriter and has published a selection of poetry as well as self-recorded an album of music. She sings Bach and paints landscapes. A Quiet Tide is her first novel. @ThisMarianneLee www.mariannelee.ie

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Schlagworte: 19th century fiction • Ballylickey House • Bantry • Biographical Fiction • Botany • Cork • Debut • Dublin • Ellen Hutchins • Female Botanist • Herstory • historical fiction • History of Science • Ireland • Irishwoman • Irish Writers Centre • Kew Gardens • Marianne Lee • Novel Fair • Science • Seaweed • women in science
• ISBN-10: 1-84840-755-6 / 1848407556
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84840-755-8 / 9781848407558