| Title | 5. The Heart of a Maid |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Barbara Fisher (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0377.05 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0377/chapters/10.11647/obp.0377.05 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Barbara Fisher |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-09-04 |
| Long abstract | Immediately after a brief honeymoon, Jack was sent to Burma to continue his work on the Great Survey of India. Trix stayed behind in Lahore, where she began work on a novel featuring an unfeeling heroine struggling through the early years of a mis-matched and bitterly unhappy marriage. In January of 1890, after less than six months in Burma, Jack became sick and was granted home leave. Having to remove promptly to England, Trix hastily and harshly concluded her novel. Just two years into her marriage, Trix’s novel, The Heart of a Maid, appeared under the pen name Beatrice Grange. The pen name was required not only to protect Trix’s modesty but also to obscure her private marital discontent. The early events of the novel not only paralleled Trix’s life but were being recorded almost simultaneously with it. The novel is remarkable for its insight into the heart and mind of its unusually cool heroine. |
| Page range | pp. 93–102 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Barbara Fisher graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. For many years, she taught 18th and 19th Century English Literature, mostly at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate college of the New School University in New York City. She has also been a book reviewer for major U.S. newspapers including the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, for which she wrote a book column every other Sunday for fifteen years. This is her first book as an independent scholar. She is currently working on a biography of mid-20th Century cultural and literary critic Lionel Trilling.