Mary elizabeth braddon books of the bible

I started this book three times and quit it the first two times after one or two chapters, because I could not stand the arrogant, vain, self-absorbed Elizabeth, the main kvinna lead. When I picked it up again gods week, inom was determined to read it through, because of a great review. While Elizabeth harbored these qualities more or less through the whole book, her life was very interesting. Her pride ended up causing her much heartache (doesn’t it do that to all of us!), but her softer side came out from time to time, and nearly every single character had more or less glaring personality faults as well, so that is actually realistic. inom love that the culture of the day, in which this was written, were familiar with many Bible characters and verses that were inadvertently referred to on occasion.

Emotional blackmail and a priggish morality lay the road open to two broken hearts and an unhappy marriage. Add to it jealousy, a sense of drunken propriety and murder and pretty much all of Braddon’s tale is told.

Unusual in MEB’s books, there is some detail here in the characterisation. Although they are for the most part stock figures, both the principals undergo change, growth, fear, despair and shifts in attitude. Perhaps the paid companion, Jessie Bridgeman, is exceptional in that however devoted she seems to her employers, she is bitterly outspoken in a way that most companions would hesitate to do. It is also interesting that she faces real hostility from the son of her employer. However, since her role is that of Chorus and Observer, she does not influence the plot in any major way.

This is less a sensational novel than MEB’s later and more mature novels, and might be classed with her earliest works, where she had not yet reached her full and of