Daughters Of The Late Colonel-Katherine Mansfield

In The Daughters Of The Late Colonel we meet two sisters of an uncertain age, in the week after the death of their father. It is possible to estimate their ages at around the early fifties, because they have a grown-up nephew.
This is the story of two lives which have been distorted by a tyrannical father. It is not only a story of the lost opportunities in the lives of two women, in the literal sense, but a story of a deprived existence, both physical and mental.
When the story opens, the sisters are talking from their seperate beds, in one room-they have since childhood, shared a room,…