Consequences
1919
Consequences, a novel by E. M. Delafield published in 1919, follows Alex Clare, a young woman who grapples with societal expectations and personal failure. Refusing to marry the only suitor who proposes, Alex's life leads her to consider a convent as her only option for escape. The narrative critiques Victorian values and explores themes of alienation, loneliness, and the impact of family dynamics. Delafield's own experience in a convent informs the story, which ultimately ends tragically for Alex, highlighting the consequences of her choices.
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“...Alex found herself reading of emotions and experiences of which her own seemed so feeble a mockery, that she was conscious of a physical pang of sick disappointment. Was all fiction utterly untrue to life? Or was hers the counterfeit, which the printed pages but reproduced something of a reality which was denied to her?””
— E. M. Delafield
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