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A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the titular clergyman's daughter, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.
- George Orwell
- 1935
It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. The main character of the story is the daughter of the clergyman, "Dorothy", Who lives in a dry environment, the house of his clergyman father.
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In A Clergyman’s Daughter, George Orwell explores the theme of class struggle through the character of Dorothy Hare. As the daughter of a clergyman, Dorothy belongs to the middle class, but her experiences as a teacher in a poor school expose her to the harsh realities of working-class life.
The main character of the novel is Dorothy Hare, the only child of the Reverend Charles Hare, Rector of St. Athelstan’s. The first part of the book is a description of Dorothy’s life as a clergyman’s daughter in rural England in the 1930s.
Orwell’s second novel, A Clergyman’s Daughter, ostensibly follows the eponymous Dorothy Hare as an attack of amnesia takes her into poverty, a police cell and employment at a school for girls.
The story is of Dorothy Hare, the 'clergyman's daughter', who somehow finds herself (literally) on her uppers and has a real struggle to survive. The description of the suffering (and also the resourcefulness) of those who have sunk to extreme poverty, destitution even, is a real eye-opener.
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Mar 6, 2012 · Casting a modern eye on Orwell’s A Clergyman’s Daughter. By Rachel Halliburton. Could Dorothy Hare exist in the 21st century? George Orwell’s sharply sketched portrait of a clergyman’s daughter exerts an almost luminous drabness in its depiction of her constant, wearying self-denial.
