I for One . . . (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Norris Frank Davey
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Setting: New Zealand
- Principal Characters: Katherine, Dr. Hubert Nock, Katherine’s Mother, Hilda James, Helen
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Self-discovery, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Blindness or blind persons, Writing, Women’s issues, Women, Single people, New Zealand or New Zealanders
- Locales: New Zealand
The Novel
I for One... is written as a series of diary entries kept by Katherine, a schoolteacher, over the course of the five months following her father’s death. Katherine seems to be in her thirties and lives at home with her mother. The death of Katherine’s father has left both women curiously unaffected, except that it has caused Katherine to take up her diary again after a ten-year hiatus. Katherine is disturbed by her mother’s apparent stoicism and believes it to be the product of a denial of the terrible loss. She is shocked, then, to discover that her...
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