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The Chinese Garden: A Novel (Paperback)
by Rosemary Manning (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York; 1st Feminist Press Ed edition (1 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1558612165
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558612167
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 120,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the 'Chinese garden', Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel's intellectual growth.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thank God it's history, 28 Mar 2005
This is a republished autobiographical novel about Rachel's' days at boarding school.

It details the constricted, distorted, almost Alice in Wonderland atmosphere of Bampfield (Girls') College in the 1920s where a group of ex-VADs are bringing the 'gels' up in the eyes of 'Gud' and under the supervision of 'the Chief' to be proper public schoolboys - I kid you not.

A chance set of events, and a brief confidence by Rachel to a teacher, leads to the discovery, separation and expulsion of two of her friends who are having a lesbian love affair. Rachel attempts suicide.

The novel conveys a rightful distrust of adults - from the perspective of someone who herself became a head teacher. The adults are shown as morally corrupt as well as fearful of the consequences for the school. It exhibits the scars of someone who feels her values and personality were permanently distorted, and who feels no pride in having flourished somewhere that had the atmosphere of an eccentric prison.

The sheer intelligence and honesty of the novel carry it thro