![]() “The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. In the stifling atmosphere of late nineteenth century Louisiana society, Edna Pontellier lives with her husband Lѐonce a creole businessman and her two young sons, dimly aware that she is not quite as traditionally maternal as the other wives around her hers was very much a society marriage. The book chosen to be their first read was Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, a book which seems to have had quite a resurgence in the last year or two. ![]() ![]() Whether or not I manage to keep up with two book groups meeting two weeks apart remains to be seen – but I definitely intend to go along to the first meeting of this one in a couple of weeks. ![]() A few weeks ago I (accidently) found a second book group – or they found me – on Twitter – I can’t remember which – calling themselves a feminist book group, I had to give them a try. ![]()
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