It turns out, however, that it is not so easy to cast off the assumptions and controls of a lifetime. A Superfluous Woman annotated by Emma Frances Brooke and Barbara Tilley 26 September 2015. Jessamine tries to radically re-invent herself by fleeing London (and a looming high-society marriage), to seek humble work as a farm helper in Scotland. by Emma Frances Brooke 29 September 2016. (Partly, this doctor is a spokesperson for the author: Emma Brooke was prominently engaged in feminist and socialist thought.) Aristocratic Jessamine Halliday, suffering a splenetic seizure brought on by high breeding, is prescribed a therapeutic break in the Scottish Highlands. Accordingly, the doctor coaches her to think more critically about her role as a woman and about the uses of meaningful labor. The only “medicine” she needs is a change of thinking and new self-awareness. Codes of Discretion: Silence, Ethics and Doctor-Patient Communication in Emma Frances Brookes A Superfluous Woman (1894). Her desperate family has called in a maverick doctor, who recognizes that she suffers from the idleness and listlessness too often experienced by upper-class English women. At the opening of the story, we find Jessamine Halliday, a pampered young aristocrat, languishing and apparently close to death. Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at the end of the 19th century. Download cover art Download CD case insert A Superfluous Woman
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