A simple story (Mothers of the novel) - Softcover

Inchbald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863581366 ISBN 13: 9780863581366

Publisher: Pandora, 1987

Synopsis

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863581366
• ISBN 13: 9780863581366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294