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The Delicate Distress New Ed
Griffith, Elizabeth. Ed(S): Ricciardi, Cynthia Booth
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Paperback. This novel focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage - the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. The story centres on the deep distress of Emily Woodville. Editor(s): Ricciardi, Cynthia Booth. Series: Eighteenth-century Novels by Women. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage -- the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands.
Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epistolary novel of sensibility in the ... Read more
Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage -- the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands.
Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epistolary novel of sensibility in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Eighteenth-century Novels by Women
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813109251
SKU
V9780813109251
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Ref
99-43
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