A Simple StoryAfter 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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... characters and was thus creating a " poison which is imperceptibly , indeed , taken in , but which never fails to ... character is ambiguous enough that Dorriforth must struggle " inquisitively to gain intelligence of his ward's ...
... , " in order to give her daughter a name . When Wollstonecraft , pregnant again , married Godwin , it became clear that she had never married Imlay . her young readers , enforce it by contrasting the characters 20 INTRODUCTION.
Elizabeth Inchbald Anna Lott. her young readers , enforce it by contrasting the characters of the mother and daughter , whose history must warmly interest them . " Inchbald was deeply offended by Wollstonecraft's review , and she made ...
... characters of Miss Milner and Sandford are more fully developed than similar characters in the plays Inchbald was composing in the 17705 , even the first half of A Simple Story must have been completed long after those early plays ...
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Contents
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A Brief Chronology | 47 |
Inchbalds Other Writings | 343 |
EighteenthCentury Reception of A Simple | 369 |