The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Angus Wilson
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: London, an Eastern capital, and southern England
- Principal Characters: Meg Eliot, Bill Eliot, David Parker, Lady Viola Pirie, Tom Pirie, Poll Robson, Jill Stokes
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Marriage, Individuality, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Women, Death or dying, London, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Loneliness, Middle age
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot deals with the difficult adjustment of a popular, elegant English society woman to the loss of a beloved husband and to the subsequent loss of home, income, friends, and even identity. In the first section of the book, appropriately called “Humpty Dumpty,” Meg Eliot is introduced in all of her splendor: managing committees, collecting porcelain, giving parties, and preparing to accompany her successful husband on a business trip to the East. Even her apprehensions about travel, intensified by the solitary expanses of the desert,...
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