Between the Acts (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: June, 1939
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Bartholomew Oliver, Giles, Isa, Mrs. Lucy Swithin, Mrs. Manresa, William Dodge, Miss La Trobe
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: History, Authors or writers, Rural or country life, 1930’s, England or English people, Human behavior, Houses, mansions, or manors, Pageants
- Locales: England
The Story:
Pointz Hall was not one of the great English houses mentioned in the guidebooks, but it was old and comfortable and pleasantly situated in a tree-fringed meadow. The house was older than the name of its owners in the county. Although they had hung the portrait of an ancestress in brocade and pearls beside the staircase and kept a watch under glass that had stopped a bullet at Waterloo, the Olivers had lived only a little more than a century in a district where the names of the villagers went back to the Domesday Book. The countryside still showed traces of the...
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