{"product_id":"district-governors-daughters-9781909408418","title":"District Governor's Daughters","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel written by a daughter of one of Norway's best-known literary families. Camilla Collett had felt her creativity stifled and her literary ambitions thwarted by society's conventional expectations of what a woman could properly achieve; it was not until she was a widow of 42 that she could finally finish her novel, which she called 'my life's long-suppressed scream'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an intricate study of relationships, the novel creates a bourgeois society reminiscent of Jane Austen, in which marriage is the only respectable career for a woman. Sophie, the youngest of four daughters of a cynical and disappointed mother, struggles against society's precepts and her own conditioning to be allowed to make an independent choice; but all her surroundings can offer her by way of models are disillusioned wives, lonely spinsters or crazy old maids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norvik Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50506626400530,"sku":"9781909408418","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54ee4e75-cf52-4596-b308-c2e721dd87a0.jpg?v=1730852505","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/district-governors-daughters-9781909408418","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}