Deerbrook

Description

Deerbrook was first published in 1839, comes in three volumes. It is a tale of an upper middle class provincial life with a doctor as the protagonist. Similar with the next and much popular story Middlemarch, Deerbrook defines the life of provincial men in an illusory English village. The Grey family reside in a few of the most beautiful houses in Deerbrook, but their lives were soon to change. The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, no longer having parents, were far-off cousins of Mr. Grey. The same as Jane Austen’s writings, we discern how the sisters are attempting to progress themselves. In Victorian England, the primary manner for women to progress themselves is to marry rich men. But will they win? And if they win, will they be contented?

Harriet Martineau was the daughter of a Norwich textile industrialist of Huguenot ancestry, thus, the name and business. In 1829, the depository in which she, her mother and her sisters, had reserved their finances, unsuccessful and fruitless, she was required to work through making novels, at which she was greatly skillful, especially on political matters, for instance, the scarcity a family faces on the demise of the person who acts as the main source of income. In 1839, after her trips in the United States, she created two lengthy tales, of which Deerbrook was one, and a novel of Toussaint L’Ouverture the other.

This significant work of art, hence, provides a wide perspective into the lives of upper middle class families in the middle of 19th century. No one in families these times discusses to the whole family in the courteous, possibly over-courteous, words found in this novel. For this end, although it was not intended to be brought as such, this novel is based on fact and thoughtful social detail.
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