A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Inchbald, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199554722 ISBN 13: 9780199554720

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

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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About the Author

The late J.M.S. Tompkins edited the OEN text from which this edition derives. Jane Spencer is a lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Her other publications include The Rise of the Woman Novelist (Blackwell, 1986). Her introduction to A Simple Story reconsiders Elizabeth Inchbald in the light of current feminist thinking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199554722
• ISBN 13: 9780199554720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 345
• Editor: Tompkins J. M. S.