The Daughters Of The Late Colonel

The Daughters of the Late Colonel is a short story by the renowned New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield. The story revolves around two sisters, Josephine and Constantia, who are mourning the death of their father, a retired colonel. The sisters are middle-aged and have lived their entire lives under their father's strict and domineering rule.The story takes place in the days following their father's funeral, as the sisters attempt to come to terms with their loss and adjust to their new lives without him. They are confronted with the reality of their own mortality and the emptiness of their lives. They struggle to make sense of their father's legacy and their own existence.The sisters are visited by their brother, who is insensitive to their grief and dismissive of their concerns. They also interact with their maid, who provides a contrast to their privileged upbringing and highlights the class differences that exist in society.Throughout the story, Mansfield explores themes of family, duty, and the passage of time. She portrays the sisters as trapped in their own lives and unable to break free from the constraints that their father imposed on them. The story is a poignant commentary on the human condition and the struggle for meaning in a world that often seems devoid of it.Overall, The Daughters of the Late Colonel is a masterful work of fiction that showcases Mansfield's skill as a writer. It is a powerful and moving story that will resonate with readers long after they have finished reading it.Father would never forgive them. That was what they felt more than ever when, two mornings later, they went into his room to go through his things. They had discussed it quite calmly. It was even down on Josephine's list of things to be done. Go through father's things and settle about them. But that was a very different matter from saying after breakfast.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.