Entrapped

Description

The book starts with a bad weather outside an ancestral house and rough arguments between the persons inside the house. The story describes the busy life of Zoe Blount, not to mention her connection in a mystery and her status in a complex family background. Following her romantic relations and illustrating her miseries that lead to sexual double standards. The fictional characters’ personal strife, specifically within married life, involves shifting issues of gender duties and family connections in the early twentieth century.

Alice Diehl was a British musician and novelist. She transitioned from being a concert pianist to being a writer, of music reviews, 50 novels and many books.

Alice Georgina Mangold or simply Alice Diehl was born in Aveley, Essex, at the house of her maternal grandfather, Charles Vidal, a town doctor from Jamaica. Her parents were Carl Mangold and Eliza Vidal Mangold, who lived in London, where her father taught music.

At her early years, Alice wrote two books of her poems which were later published. She started an interest in becoming a professional pianist when her father suffered mental conditions and her grandfather believed that becoming a musician is a good source of family income. She was taught in Silesia by a pianist and composer, Adolphe Henselt, who was a friend of her father. Henselt’s different methods of teaching piano are detailed in her memoirs.

Diehl was successful as a pianist and earned an income from teaching music, as well as writing reviews for Musical World and other publications, and also short stories. She wrote about 50 novels, such as Griselda, which has been critiqued as “a heavy-handed story of womanly self-sacrifice”. Most of her books were about mysteries or emotions.


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