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The Secret Life

Being the Book of a Heretic

by Elizabeth Bisland

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A midsummer impulse prompts Elizabeth Bisland to begin a diary for opinions she hesitates to voice among her respectable acquaintances. These dated entries turn private reflection into essays on manners, books, belief and the difficulty of knowing another person. In the opening, she recasts the tale of the king’s invisible clothes to suggest how readily society punishes uncomfortable truth. A grieving mother’s discovery of her son’s treasured scraps gives that argument a quieter, more personal weight.

Bisland also considers what journals reveal about their writers, recalling her own efforts to learn French while churning. Later reflections praise the patience of ordinary caregivers and imagine successive generations confronting the Sphinx, each confident that it has found the answer to happiness.

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Pages
147
Language
English
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