Rutherford and son
By: Katherine Githa Sowerby
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Drama; Social conditions
Description: Written in 1912 during the upsurge of the British feminist movement, this powerful play deals with the oppressive patriarchal system of the industrial North at that time. Rutherford is the hard, tyrannical master of both his glassworks and his family, who attacks, degrades and rejects each of his children in turn. To his daughter Janet, her banishment is a release, and she forcefully condemns her father and his values.
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