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The Education of Harriet Hatfield
May Sarton

The Education of Harriet Hatfield

A Novel

W.W. Norton & Company (Jun 05, 1989)
9780393026955
| Hardcover
320 pages | 5.8 x 8.7 inch | English
$ 18.95
Dewey 813.52
LC Classification PS3537.A832 .E38 1989
LC Control No. 88038042

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Booksellers And Bookselling
  • Boston (Mass.)
  • Feminists
  • Fiction / Lesbian
  • Homophobia
  • Women
  • Women/ Massachusetts/ Boston/ Fiction

Plot

'Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her lesbianism. Ms. Sarton's powerful potrayal of the shy, reserved woman's battle becomes a moving statement about the place of the outsider in our world-and the necessity of following the human heart.'