{"product_id":"fidelity","title":"Fidelity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/4-fidelity.jpg?v=1593031720\u0026amp;width=700\" width=\"490\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY NICOLA BEAUMAN\u003cbr\u003e384pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780953478033\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFidelity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (1915) is a classic of early feminist literature that should be put beside books by writers such as Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman or Kate Chopin. Set in Iowa in 1900 and in 1913, this dramatic and deeply moral novel uses complex but subtle use of flashback to describe a girl named Ruth Holland, bored with her life at home, who falls in love with a married man and runs off with him; when she comes back more than a decade later we are shown how her actions have affected those around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth had taken another woman's husband and as such 'Freeport' society thinks she is 'a human being who selfishly – basely – took her own happiness, leaving misery for others. She outraged society as completely as a woman could outrage it... One who defies it – deceives it – must be shut out from it.' But, like Emma in \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e, Edna Pontellier in \u003cem\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e and Nora in \u003cem\u003eA Doll's House, \u003c\/em\u003eRuth has 'a diffused longing for an enlarged experience... Her energies having been shut off from the way they had wanted to go, she was all the more zestful for new things from life...' It is these themes that are explored in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFidelity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. This is a novel impossible to stop reading: right until the last page we do not know how it will end. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday Susan Glaspell \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eis primarily known for her plays (the most famous is 'Trifles' and she won a Pulitzer prize for 'Alison's House'), but in our view she is one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpapers show a Log Cabin quilt, now in a museum in England, sewn in the late nineteenth century near Iowa; the red pieces are an echo of the Sangré de Cristo mountains in Colorado, where Ruth is exiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSusan Glaspell in 1913\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Glaspell","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098745753907,"sku":"yvl1789694338279","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098745786675,"sku":"tbq1789694338280","price":31.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098745819443,"sku":"aki1789694338281","price":40.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098745852211,"sku":"aei1789694338282","price":43.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/fidelity_1.jpg?v=1789694342","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/fidelity","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}