Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - The English Drama - Stanley Houghton - Hindle Wakes
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
228 Stanley Houghton
Down in the valley of Hindle live the Haw-
thornes, humble and content, as behooves God
fearing workers. They too have ambitions in be
half of their daughter Fanny, strong, willful and
self-reliant, qualities molded in the hard grind
of Jefcote s mill, where she had begun work as a
tot.
During the
"
bank holiday
"
Fanny with her
chum Mary goes to a neighboring town for an
outing. There they meet two young men, Alan
Jefcote and his friend. Fanny departs with Alan,
and they spend a glorious time together. On the
way home Mary is drowned. As a result of the
accident the Hawthornes learn that their daughter
had not spent her vacation with Mary. When
Fanny returns, they question her, and though she
at first refuses to give an account of herself,
they soon discover that the girl had passed the
time with a man, young Alan Jefcote. Her
parents are naturally horrified, and decide to force
the Jefcotes to have Alan marry Fanny.
In the old mother of Fanny the author has suc
ceeded in giving a most splendid characterization
of the born drudge, hardened by her long struggle
with poverty, and grown shrewd in the ways of the
world. She knows her daughter so little, how
ever, that she believes Fanny had schemed the af
fair with Alan in the hope that she might force him
to marry her. In her imagination the old woman
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
