Feb 28, 2025
Thomas Street, Manchester.
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Thomas Street, Manchester.
Margaret Drabble, The Millstone (1965)
In the swinging scene of 1960s London, Rosamund is an anomaly: a socially liberal graduate student who is completely uninterested in sex. He
In the swinging scene of 1960s London, Rosamund is an anomaly: a socially liberal graduate student who is completely uninterested in sex. He
Kadambari, H K Verma, 1976. Azmi’s character, Chetna, is an art critic who works for the Hindustan Times. Her character reminded me of Margaret Drabble’s Rosamund in The Millstone. Like Chetna, Rosamund finds herself pregnant and decides to go ahead with it without involving or informing the father. Both the characters do not want the support of the men they love in the form of marriage just out of compulsion based on this fact. The complexity of this situation is well put by Drabble when she speaks through Rosamund’s thoughts, “Occasionally, when roused to a pitch of peculiar transport by Octavia’s charm, I felt like ringing him up and telling him about her, but I never did; I fancied that I knew enough about human nature to know that no amount of charm could possibly balance the quite unjustified sense of obligation, financial, personal, and emotional, that such a revelation would instantly set to work. So I spared him and myself.”
“Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.
The Millstone, Margaret Drabble
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/15/the-millstone-the-crucial-1960s-feminist-novel
This is such a great book, and always brings to mind the lovely Patrick Kavanagh quote: “the millstone has become a star / count then your blessings / call to mind / all that have loved you or been kind” (that might not be quite right, due to hangover-induced amnesia)
If one of us did not move towards the other, then we could only move apart. Like two fish, embalmed in the living frozen river, we eyed each other in silence through the solid resistant intervening air, and did not move. After a while, when silence itself threatened to become some kind of positive action, he spoke.
Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
well the Utopian characteristics demonstrated in the novel The Millstone incl--OH WAIT I DONT GIVE A SHIT