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A Simple Story
Elizabeth Inchbald
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Description for A Simple Story
Paperback. Editor(s): Tompkins, J. M. S. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 THE SERIES: For ... Read more
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 THE SERIES: For ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554720
SKU
V9780199554720
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About Elizabeth Inchbald
The late J.M.S. Tompkins edited the OEN text from which 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.
Reviews for A Simple Story
'well worth reading, standing as it does at a watershed of the English novel' University of Edinburgh Journal 'A charming marginally pre-Austen tale' Shirley de Kock, Southern Africa Cape Times 'Excellent choice of reprint' I. A. Bell, Aberystwyth 'Excellent text, well edited.' Henry Merritt, C.C.A.T. 'this 1792 novel deserves its place for its charm, its readability and as an early ... Read more