The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other TimesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 - 364 Seiten First published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and marriage, this novel portrays women involved in political intrigues and overseas journeys. It is set during the reign of Elizabeth I, and features as narrators, fictional daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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... hand unsullied , behold even so I restore them . ” ” Rising up as she pronounced these words , she held a hand of each of us to her heart , while her eyes streamed with a kind of glory when lifted toward her Creator . Never did I see ...
... hand unsullied , behold even so I restore them . ” ” Rising up as she pronounced these words , she held a hand of each of us to her heart , while her eyes streamed with a kind of glory when lifted toward her Creator . Never did I see ...
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... hand of Elizabeth , who thus resigns all authority over thee , except that thy heart gives her . ” She paused , extending a withered hand . Lord Leicester , confused beyond all expression , and expecting me to drop senseless every ...
... hand of Elizabeth , who thus resigns all authority over thee , except that thy heart gives her . ” She paused , extending a withered hand . Lord Leicester , confused beyond all expression , and expecting me to drop senseless every ...
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... hand of my sleeping love , for me thou shalt no more be endangered , and degraded ; be- yond the reach of our enemies we may now laugh at all their impotent malice . Ah vain and presumptuous ! a deadly snare was at that moment winding ...
... hand of my sleeping love , for me thou shalt no more be endangered , and degraded ; be- yond the reach of our enemies we may now laugh at all their impotent malice . Ah vain and presumptuous ! a deadly snare was at that moment winding ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | vii |
Notes to the Introduction | xxxviii |
Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Urheberrecht | |
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affection alike Ann Radcliffe appeared arms behold bosom Cecil charm conduct Court cried danger dared daughter dear death Dornock dreadful Duke duke of Norfolk Earl Elizabeth Ellinor England eyes fancy fatal fate favorite fear fortune Frances Burney gave Goldsmith Gothic Gothic fiction Gothic novel grief hand happy heart Heaven Hester Piozzi hope Hume idea indulgence Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle King knew Lady Arundel Lady Pembroke Lady Southampton Lee's letter London Lord Arlington Lord Burghley Lord Essex Lord Leicester lover Madam marriage Mary Matilda mind misfortune Mortimer mother nature never noble Norfolk novel once passion perhaps Piozzi pleasure Prince prison Queen of Scots Recess resolved retired Robertson safety secret seemed sense sensible servants shewed sighed silence sister Sophia Lee soul suffer sunk surprize sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion Tracey voice wish wretch youth