e of the downtrodden women of her time, a working woman with all the experience of the poor and their…ok written by a woman who had given birth, was comfortable with her body, no more Temples to Diana. Maria was placed in a madhouse by her husband so he could appropriate her money. She then finds love in the asylum, and the novel also introduces, again as a first, one of the downtrodden women of her time, a working woman with all the experience of the poor and their story, “the outlaws of the world”.
Inge E. Knudsen