Written in 1935, A Clergyman’s Daughter was Orwell’s third published book and his second novel. Orwell remained implacably and enduringly critical of A Clergyman’s Daughter, stating in 1946, when comparing the novel unfavourably with Keep the Aspidistra Flying,
There is an even worse one called A Clergyman’s Daughter. This was written simply as an exercise and I oughtn’t to have published it, but I was desperate for money, ditto when I wrote Keep the A. At that time I simply hadn’t a book in me, but I was half starved and had to turn out something to bring in £100 or so. (CEJL 4: 241)
The plot of A Clergyman’s …
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