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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... mean time , Norfolk used every means to prevent the Re- gent of Scotland from accusing Mary to the Queen ; nor was his artifice un- successful . Murray , after having entered England for no other purpose , sud- denly returned , without ...
... mean time , Norfolk used every means to prevent the Re- gent of Scotland from accusing Mary to the Queen ; nor was his artifice un- successful . Murray , after having entered England for no other purpose , sud- denly returned , without ...
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... means of letting my Lord know it without breaking my word : for once in my life I was guilty of duplicity , and , like Philoctetes , found my equivocation furnished a terrible punishment . " I wrote a letter , declaring the whole to ...
... means of letting my Lord know it without breaking my word : for once in my life I was guilty of duplicity , and , like Philoctetes , found my equivocation furnished a terrible punishment . " I wrote a letter , declaring the whole to ...
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... means by which it was effected , must inevitably cause : except indeed the loss of Will- iams should abate their ferocity . While I talked , I frequently perceived her mind wandered on another subject . She surveyed the disguised ...
... means by which it was effected , must inevitably cause : except indeed the loss of Will- iams should abate their ferocity . While I talked , I frequently perceived her mind wandered on another subject . She surveyed the disguised ...
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