AMELIA PRESTON

PATRIMONY

 

The definitions of the word, Patrimony, being: property inherited from one's father or male ancestor, or things passed down from previous generations, evoke concepts of ownership, cultural heritage and the temporal proximity of Victorian women to millenial woman today. In the final book, two portraits of each woman tells us that there is more to them than how they look for a fraction of a second, and 

empowers each individual as strong, contemporary heroines in their own right.