Literary Fiction
Educating Waverley
2002·336 pages
A young girl arrives at an eccentric all-girls school on a remote island in 1939, where avant-garde education, intense friendships, and sensual first love unfold against the backdrop of.
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A young girl arrives at an eccentric all-girls school on a remote island in 1939, where avant-garde education, intense friendships, and sensual first love unfold against the backdrop of.
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"In the autumn of 1939, young Waverley Scott arrives on remote Isadora Island in the Puget Sound. She is to be a student at Temple School - banished, she knows, because her features too closely resemble those of her mother's married employer. Alone, abandoned, and unloved, Waverley steps off the rain-washed boat and into the eccentric world of Temple School.".
"The headmistress of this all-girl school, Sophia Westervelt, has a mysterious past and a passion for education. She instills achievement...
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Sexual content
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Fierce sensual first love; adolescent sexual discoveries that scandalize
Violence & gore
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Distant WWII conflict impacts the isolated island school
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Substance use
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Women's education, American values, and gender roles explored
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child abandonment; protagonist banished as illegitimate offspring
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