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Esther Waters is a novel by George Moore first published in 1894. Overview [ edit ] Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a pious young woman from a poor working-class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to ...
Esther Waters is a novel by George Moore first published in 1894. The novel stands out among Moore's publications as the book whose immediate success brought him financial security. Continuously revised by Moore (1899, 1917, 1920, 1931), it is often understood to be his best novel.
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Esther Waters is a novel by George Moore, first published in 1894, but subsequently revised several times. It is widely considered Moore's finest novel. Esther Waters concerns the eponymous heroine, a poor but pious woman whose life takes an unfortunate series of turns that end up pitting her personal conscience against prevailing social standards.
Oct 12, 2012 · Esther Waters was written in 1894, and set in the harsh reality of 1870's England for a poor servant girl. It caused quite a stir at the time, dealing as it does with issues of immorality such as illegitimacy; divorce; gambling; and the terrible spectre of the workhouse.
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Esther Waters is a 1948 British drama film directed by Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud and starring Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde (first credited film appearance), and Cyril Cusack. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel Esther Waters by George Moore .
- Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud
- Gordon Jacob (as Dr. Gordon Jacob)
- 22 September 1948#TAB#(London)
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Esther learns from her sister that the entire family will now move to Australia. It's the last time Esther sees anyone from her family ever again. Esther becomes a wet nurse, leaving her baby, little Jack, with a baby farmer to go work as a nurse for a wealthy woman. The wealthy women never breast-feed their own baby.
Oct 11, 2012 · Esther Waters. George Moore. OUP Oxford, Oct 11, 2012 - Fiction - 384 pages. 'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.'. Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She is seduced and abandoned, and forced to support herself and her ...
