Her Own Terms (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Grossman
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1940's and 1950's
- Setting: Oxford and London, England
- Principal Characters: Irene Tanner, Hilda Tanner, Heather Tanner, Roger, Stuart, John Singleton
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Parents and children, Sexism, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Class consciousness, College life, England or English people, Women’s issues, Abortion, Colleges or universities, Learning or scholarship, Sex roles
- Locales: London, England, Oxford, England
It might be assumed that a bright young poet, who from childhood has been miserably alone in a working-class suburb of London, will find happiness when she wins a scholarship to the University of Oxford, where people are valued for their intelligence. Judith Grossman's first novel, Her Own Terms, demonstrates that for a woman in the rarefied atmosphere of an English university, acceptance does not come so easily. Certainly class and cultural handicaps can be surmounted at Oxford, but the very men who can overlook the lower-class backgrounds of other men will never forget the fact...
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