A Simple StoryBroadview Press, 24. maj 2007 - 370 sider 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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Acknowledgements | 11 |
A Brief Chronology | 47 |
Inchbalds Other Writings | 343 |
EighteenthCentury Reception of A Simple | 369 |
Cultural Contexts | 388 |
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