"This scholarly edition of "The Sylph " provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a "roman a clef "drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements." --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen
"This scholarly edition of The Sylph provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a roman a clef drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements."& nbsp; --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen
"This scholarly edition of "The Sylph" provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a "roman a clef "drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements." --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen
"This scholarly edition of "The Sylph" provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a "roman a clef "drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements." --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen"
"Once praised as ingenious and condemned as obscene, "The Sylph "is, in fact, a fascinating insider's view of the life of the British ruling class, penned by one of the most gifted and troubled women of the eighteenth century." --Paula R. Feldman, C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, University of South Carolina"
"This scholarly edition of The Sylph provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a roman a clef drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements." --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen
"Once praised as ingenious and condemned as obscene,
The Sylph is, in fact, a fascinating insider's view of the life of the British ruling class, penned by one of the most gifted and troubled women of the eighteenth century." --Paula R. Feldman, C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, University of South Carolina
-This scholarly edition of
The Sylph provides fresh insights into the lives of aristocratic women in the 1770s. The novel by one of the most fashionable women of her age is both a window on upper-class social mores and a
roman a clef drawing on the Duchess's own gambling addiction and unconventional domestic arrangements.- --Janet Todd, Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen
-Once praised as ingenious and condemned as obscene,
The Sylph is, in fact, a fascinating insider's view of the life of the British ruling class, penned by one of the most gifted and troubled women of the eighteenth century.- --Paula R. Feldman, C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, University of South Carolina
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (b. 1757) first published The Sylph anonymously in 1779. She was a close friend of Marie Antoinette and an ancestor of Diana Spencer. Jonathan Gross is a professor and the director of the DePaul University Humanities Center. He is the author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal, Byron's ""Corbeau Blanc"": The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne, and Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment, and Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Family, Nation, and Romantic Love.