![]() ![]() Many years after the site at Repton was discovered in 1982, she came across it as part of her PhD research. It was the bead that caught Jarman’s attention. Their own dead were buried with more respect, along with brooches, necklaces, and exotic carnelian beads. ![]() The victims of the Vikings were dumped en masse, while nearby four children were laid to rest after some kind of grisly sacrificial ceremony. The fort would be where they planned their future campaigns.īut Repton also became the site of a vast grave. This the Vikings used to beach the longboats that had taken them deep into England. After attacking the monastery there, the marauding Scandinavians then enslaved many luckless locals and forced them to build a fort by the nearby River Trent. In 873, Repton was the site of a massacre by the Great Viking Army. But it is here that Cat Jarman begins her brilliant new history of the Vikings. The sleepy village of Repton in south Derbyshire seems like an unlikely starting point for a voyage halfway around the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() That having been said I have to agree with some of the criticisms - eight character viewpoints is perhaps too many to be covered in a book of this length, and some - such as Amy don't get much of a look in. The book raises all sorts of question - what is beauty/ugliness and who is qualified to judge? Why isn't there a similar list for the male students? It also introduces a character who proves that ugly too can be more than skin deep. ![]() The girls all react differently to being on the list - some such as Marge see it as their due, Sarah decides to rebel and get her revenge on the other students at the prom, Bridget, a recovering anorexic is perhaps the worst affected, as the comments beside her name prove to be extremely triggering to her condition. The writing is very sharp and it would definitely draw me to read more books by this author and I found very entertaining. ![]() The idea for this book is both interesting and appalling - a school where the highlight of every year is a list appearing naming the prettiest and ugliest girls in the school - and despite the arbitrary nature of this, it seems to be accepted as the truth by the student body. ![]() ![]() ![]() Helga lives in a time when slavery has been abolished, and many people are now concerned with the race problem of how to overcome the different forms of racial oppression that black people now face. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in a collection that is compellingly readable, rich in psychological complexity, and imbued with a sense of place that brings Harlem vibrantly to life. Quicksand traces the life of Helga Crane, a young biracial woman searching for belonging in the early 20th-century U.S. Quicksand, Larsen’s first novel (1928) tells the story of a restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. When the two women meet, after decades of separation, they impact each other lives in ways that neither would have imagined. Clare Kendy, on the other hand, marries a bigoted white man - never telling him of her true heritage. Irene Redfield marries an African-American doctor and moves to Harlem. Passing (originally published in 1929,) Passing tells the troublesome relationship between two African-American woman who are light enough to pass for white. Nella Larsen’s subject is the struggle of sensitive, spirited heroines to find a place for themselves in a hostile world. ![]() In The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s, we rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ![]() |