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Diana Tempest, Volume I
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91 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 27, 2011
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About the author
Mary Cholmondeley
101 books16 followersMary Cholmondeley was an English novelist.
The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much of the first thirty years of her life taking care of her sickly mother.
Selected writings
* The Danvers Jewels (1886)
* Sir Charles Danvers (1889)
* Let Loose (1890)
* Diana Tempest (1893)
* Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly (1897)
* Red Pottage (1899)
* Prisoners (1906)
* The Lowest Rung (1908)
* Moth and Rust (1912)
* After All (1913)
* Notwithstanding (1913)
* Under One Roof (1917)
The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much of the first thirty years of her life taking care of her sickly mother.
Selected writings
* The Danvers Jewels (1886)
* Sir Charles Danvers (1889)
* Let Loose (1890)
* Diana Tempest (1893)
* Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly (1897)
* Red Pottage (1899)
* Prisoners (1906)
* The Lowest Rung (1908)
* Moth and Rust (1912)
* After All (1913)
* Notwithstanding (1913)
* Under One Roof (1917)
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August 11, 2021
I assume that Diana Tempest was published ay some point in three volumes, since that is how gutenberg.org converted it to this ebook format and is therefore how I read it. I have also seen it listed as a single volume and that makes more sense to me. I say that because although this initial volume introduces Diana through her family history, it really about her as much as I would expect in a novel named after her. I am imagining reading David Copperfield in which David is a minor character! I expect that Diana will becomes more of a central character as the story progresses.
But setting that publishing quirk aside, I enjoyed volume one. It has a modern feel to me reading it, considering it was published in 1893. The novel contains traces of romance, character studies of her family members and, not least of all, elements of gothic foreboding and suspense. I wonder if her work was influential to her contemporary writers her era in moving towards what we know now as the genre of suspense thriller. This initial volume even ends with a bit of a cliffhanger. Needless to say, it will not be long before I move on to volume two and see what happens to the small group of main characters next.
But setting that publishing quirk aside, I enjoyed volume one. It has a modern feel to me reading it, considering it was published in 1893. The novel contains traces of romance, character studies of her family members and, not least of all, elements of gothic foreboding and suspense. I wonder if her work was influential to her contemporary writers her era in moving towards what we know now as the genre of suspense thriller. This initial volume even ends with a bit of a cliffhanger. Needless to say, it will not be long before I move on to volume two and see what happens to the small group of main characters next.
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