Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulA woman's life from her teens to age 54, from the 1890s to the 1930s
Years of Grace
One woman's life across forty years of changing manners
Years of Grace begins in the 1890s and continues into the 1930s, and it takes in upper-middle-class society and Bryn Mawr College. The novel follows Jane Ward Carver from her teens to age 54 and examines the social manners of a class where traditionalist women try to uphold conventional morality as social norms change.
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Who
Jane Ward Carver, followed from her teens to age 54; the Bryn Mawr presidents M. Carey Thomas and Marion Park also appear.
World
The 1890s to the 1930s, in upper-middle-class society, with Bryn Mawr College.
What makes it different
It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which Wikipedia lists for 1931. Barnes's best-known work is otherwise the play Dishonored Lady, which she co-wrote with Edward Sheldon.
Feel
Reflective and domestic.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Behind the book
Barnes's best-known work is the play Dishonored Lady, which she co-wrote with Edward Sheldon.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Years of GraceWikipedia