Author

Walt Ruding

Walt Ruding was a late-Victorian author about whom little is now recorded. An Evil Motherhood (1895), styled "an impressionist novel", belongs to the decadent writing of the Yellow Nineties, and Ruding died within weeks of its publication.

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An Evil Motherhood: An Impressionist Novel

Walt Ruding

A young man declared insane by the machinations of his own mother. This book sows the seeds of stream of consciousness writing and of what was to come in the best of twentieth-century fiction. It is deliberately experimental - and quite genuinely 'impressionist'.