Susan Ferrier Quotes

“In both Marriage and Inheritance Ferrier reaffirms national identity differences between Scotland and England by deliberately bifurcating characters and settings between the two nations. Even her very titles - Marriage, Inheritance, Destiny - project a telescoping of the national tale whereby the 'culminating acts of union become frought with unresolved tensions, leading to prolonged courtship complications, to marital crisis, and even to national divorce'. We would do well to reconsider Ferrier's relegation to a lesser novelist working in the shadow of Austen.”
― Charles Snodgrass, The International Companion to the Scottish Novel