“If those lines sound melodramatic, or ultra-passionate’, that is because first love is generally thus, or particularly unrequited one awaken in a pure and innocent heart. Her writing is the natural explosion of accumulated fuel exposed toįlame, an eruption from one who ‘at home ever alluded to feelings or ever
She writes in the mind of Olivia, a young woman, more a girl, fired byįirst love. The over-flowing of feeling is a conscious choice for thematic That, Strachey’s writing feels sincere, and not the product of stylisticĮxtremes. Writes of a time a whole world ago, of a self she has long since passed. She says ‘those Victorian days’ (66) she means 1870s. Her in her 40s at most, extending her faculties back only a few decades. I learnt how old she was when writing this.
I saw a writer whose style lacked justification. Not because I thought the writing poor, but On my first reading I held this against Strachey, her If those lines sound melodramatic, or ultra-passionate, It has a strange combination of strength and delicacy.' The. 'A remarkable novel which is unique in its presentation of the female mind and emotions in teachers and pupils at a girls' school.
But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines and the school year is destined to end abruptly in tragedy.
Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. 'Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion' Sarah Waters When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education.
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