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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... Woman ( 1792 ) 390 b . From Mary Wollstonecraft , An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution ( 1794 ) 397 • c . From Edmund Burke , Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) • 398 d . From ...
... Woman ( 1798 ) • 426 b . Elizabeth Inchbald , Letter to William Godwin ( 18 September 1805 ) • 427 c . From Trials for Adultery : Or , The History of Divorces ( 1779 ) • 428 • Select Bibliography 437 Acknowledgements I cannot possibly ...
... woman . The marriage secured Elizabeth's entrance into the theatrical world and provided her with protection from the jeers and innuendoes that she had experienced as an unmarried woman within that world . After a few engagements in ...
... woman , Inchbald was under particular pressure to instill her writing with a didactic message . As Janet Todd explains , " Female novelists united in their effort to use fiction for interventionist purposes , to comment on life as it ...
... woman . Inchbald could not risk being seen publicly with Wollstonecraft or Godwin , but her private feelings about them must have been more complicated than her public avoidance might indicate . Her private and public writings ...
Contents
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A Brief Chronology | 47 |
Inchbalds Other Writings | 343 |
EighteenthCentury Reception of A Simple | 369 |