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Anne Severn and the Fieldings
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings is a [[1922 in literature|1922 novel]] by [[May Sinclair]].
The novel deals with Anne Severn's adoption into the Fielding family after the death of her mother; her father serves in the Indian Civil Service and chooses that over his daughter. The [[First World War]] has a profound impact on the family: the delicate youngest son Colin is [[shell-shocked]], and Anne nurses him back to health amid a series of romantic entanglements.
Anne Severn and the Fieldings is an early novel to deal with the impact of the war on the [[Home Front]], and one of the first to depict an extended process of recovery for a shell-shocked soldier.
The novel deals with Anne Severn's adoption into the Fielding family after the death of her mother; her father serves in the Indian Civil Service and chooses that over his daughter. The [[First World War]] has a profound impact on the family: the delicate youngest son Colin is [[shell-shocked]], and Anne nurses him back to health amid a series of romantic entanglements.
Anne Severn and the Fieldings is an early novel to deal with the impact of the war on the [[Home Front]], and one of the first to depict an extended process of recovery for a shell-shocked soldier.
September 03, 2018 at 10:18PM
