A Simple StoryBroadview Press, 24.05.2007 - 442 Seiten 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. |
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... children , particu- larly her six daughters , whom she actively encouraged to read and to learn . Her mother read aloud to her daughters and wanted them to act in informal productions of plays . Although she seems in the Preface to A ...
... child , Fanny , out of wedlock . After the marriage to Godwin , Inchbald and others such as Sarah Siddons avoided contact with both Godwin and Wollstonecraft because of Wollstonecraft's scandalous reputation . Her public avoidance of ...
... children left at school , married , with children of their own — some persons who were in riches , reduced to poverty — others who were in poverty , become rich — those , once renowned tor virtue , now detested tor their vice — roving ...
... children grow- ing up and beauty fading : Miss Milner is " no longer beautiful , no longer beloved , no longer , tremble when you read this , virtuous . " But only one of the changes is inevitable — Miss Milner will lose her youthful ...
... child : I Just , however , as the coach stopt , [ Miss Milner ] had the fore- cast and the humility to say , " we will not tell Mr. Dorriforth the child is his nephew , Miss Woodley , unless he should ap- pear fond , and pleased with ...
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A Brief Chronology | 47 |
Inchbalds Other Writings | 343 |
EighteenthCentury Reception of A Simple | 369 |
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Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-century Chinese and English Fiction ... Qian Ma Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |