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A Simple Story (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Inchbald, Elizabeth

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9780192818492: A Simple Story (The ^AWorld's Classics)
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ISBN 10: 019281849X ISBN 13: 9780192818492
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question of a woman's "proper education," and her sureness of touch and subtlety of characterization prefigure Jane Austen's work.

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From the Back Cover

After its publication in early 1791, A Simple Story was widely read in England and abroad, going into a second edition in March of the same year. The novel’s young heroine, Miss Milner, scandalously declares herself in love with her guardian, Dorriforth, a Catholic priest. Dorriforth returns her love and is released from his vows. Though the pair go on to marry, the second half of the novel reveals the disastrous and far-reaching consequences of Miss Milner’s subsequent adulterous affair.

The critical introduction to this Broadview edition considers such issues as Catholicism, theatricality, the theatre, and the masquerade, while the appendices provide a wide selection of cultural, biographical, and literary contexts for the novel.

About the Author

Pamela Clemit is Professor of English Studies at Durham University.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019281849X
ISBN 13 
9780192818492
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384
Editor
Tompkins J. M. S.
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