Eleanor\'s House - Citizendia

Eleanor's House is a short story by Willa Cather. Willa Sibert Cather ( December 7, 1873 &ndash April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. It was first published in McClure's in October 1907^[1]. McClure's or McClure's Magazine was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 References to other works
4 Literary significance and criticism
5 References
6 External links

Plot summary

Harold Forscythe and his new wife Ethel are visiting the Westfields, who live in Arques-la-Bataille. Arques-la-Bataille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in northern France. Harold admits to Harriet that he is still in mourning over his late wife. Later, he goes away as he does customarily. Ethel decides to join him at Fortuney near Pontoise, where he used to live with his late wife. Pontoise is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. Harriet will go with her. When they get there, the couple have a fight. Later however, Harriet tells her husband she is buying Harold's house in Fortuney - he is leaving for America with his wife, who is pregnant. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Characters

Mrs Harriet Westfield. She went to a convent in Paris with Eleanor in her youth. A convent is a community of Priests religious brothers religious sisters or Nuns or the building used by the community particularly in the Roman Catholic Church Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
Mr Robert Westfield
Harold Forscythe
Ethel, Harold's new wife.
Eleanor Sanford, Harold's late wife.

References to other works

Harriet mentions Antoine François Prévost's Manon Lescaut, and Alfred de Musset. Antoine François Prévost ( Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles) ( April 1, 1697 - December 23, 1763) usually known simply as the For other versions of the Manon (story/movie/theater/opera see Manon (disambiguation. Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay Along with his poetry he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle ( The Confession of a Child of the Century

Literary significance and criticism

Eleanor's House has been deemed to be clumsily Jamesian^[2]. Henry James, OM ( –) son of theologian Henry James Sr, brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James

References

^ Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 Nov 1970, page 111
^ Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 Nov 1970, 'Introduction' by Mildred R. Bennett, page xxxvii

External links

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