A Simple Story

Elizabeth Inchbald

ISBN 10: 0199554722 / ISBN 13: 9780199554720

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

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Synopsis:

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.

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About the Author: The late J.M.S. Tompkins edited the OEN text from which edition derives

Jane Spencer is a lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Her other publications include The Rise of the Woman Novelist (Blackwell, 1986). Her introduction to A Simple Story reconsiders Elizabeth Inchbald in the light of current feminist thinking.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Simple Story
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New