tions informing its creation, and plausibility of the action proceeding therefrom helps explain how a work achieves contemporary relevance. In the Medea we have a cast-off first wife, a casualty of her husband's careerist ambition who finds herself forced to accept the role of single mother. In the Brangwen sisters we have a peculiar family history and an England on the brink of wholesale postwar transformation, and in Gerald Crich we have the hope of an equally peculiar family who has every advantage and whose emotional life is
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