num_pages: 504
description: From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of 'the sisterhood of women.' She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and markedout for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.
language: English
title: The Bostonians
titlecomplete: The Bostonians
characters: Basil Ransom, Olive Chancellor, Mrs. Farrinder, Selah Tarrant, Adeline Luna, Verena Tarrant, Miss Birdseye
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classics, Feminism, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 7271
places: Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Oxford University Press