The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan’s A Victory Won
The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan’s A Victory Won
This chapter examines Annie S. Swan’s novel A Victory Won (1895) in the context of the generic conventions of the kailyard genre. Despite the novel’s romantic representation of the fictional ‘Barker Street Chambers’, which is based on the Chenies Street Chambers, it explores the value of the new social relationships that could emerge in such spaces. The novel focuses on a mutually supportive and egalitarian relationship between two women who share domestic space, and in so doing elaborates on the possibilities – rather than the drawbacks – of gender-segregated housing.
Keywords: Annie Swan, A Victory Won, Kailyard, Chenies Street Chambers, Gender-Segregated Housing, Women’s Residences, Ladies’ Chambers, Romance
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