Mr Skeffington: A Virago Modern Classic | 
panI was excited to read about a woman "approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday" until I realized it was about how she'd lost her beauty and was no longer desirable to any of her suitors. The wrinkles, crevices, haggardness. ? What will become of her? (Spoiler, she ends up with a blind man who, thankfully, never has to look upon her ravaged visage. ?) Throw in some racism and antisemitism, and well, it sucked. Such a disappointment!
merelybookish I've loved other books by von Arnim and this could have been a book of liberation. Instead it's ageism at it's worst. #192025 @Librarybelle 2y
Bookwomble I found the one book of hers I tried to read hideously classist, and reading about her nazi-supporting husband's use of Polish slave labour, the anti-Semitism is sadly no surprise 🫤 2y
Librarybelle Yikes! That does sound like a disappointment! 2y
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merelybookish @Bookwomble Oh, did not know about her husband. The anti-Semitism is the least egregious of the offences here, although that's relative. Jews like to make money (of course 🙄 But there's some acknowledgement of how poorly they are being treated by Nazis. Meanwhile there's no attempt at humanizing Black people. 😒 2y
merelybookish @Librarybelle It just kept getting worse and worse. 2y
Leftcoastzen Yikes 2y
Suet624 Good lord!!! 2y
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