Beyond the glass

By:

White, Antonia

Series: Virago modern classics ; 15Publication details: London : Virago, 1979Description: 285 pISBN:

0860680975

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 11.

Summary: Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to her parents home hoping for comfort. However, it is a Catholic home, and its confines form a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond yet when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks. An extraordinary, courageous portrayal of a woman's descent into madness, Beyond The Glass is a brilliant novel which completes Antonia White's wonderful Frost in May Quartet. Antonia White was a patient at the Bethlem Royal Hospital for nine months in 1922-1923. Read this Bethlem Museum blog article: https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/in-the-spotlight-antonia-white

List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Mental Health History | SLaM Library books for International Women’s Day and beyond | SLaM leisure reading

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	ZZ 5 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023641

First published in 1954. Published by Virago Press in 1979 with an introduction by Carmen Callil.

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to her parents home hoping for comfort. However, it is a Catholic home, and its confines form a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond yet when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

An extraordinary, courageous portrayal of a woman's descent into madness, Beyond The Glass is a brilliant novel which completes Antonia White's wonderful Frost in May Quartet.

Antonia White was a patient at the Bethlem Royal Hospital for nine months in 1922-1923. Read this Bethlem Museum blog article: https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/in-the-spotlight-antonia-white

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