A Simple Story |
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| Author:
| Inchbald, Elizabeth |
| Editor:
| Tompkins, J. M. S. |
| Introduction by:
| Spencer, Jane |
| Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-955472-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $19.95AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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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 sureness of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows thatthere is no simple answer...
More DescriptionWhen 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 sureness of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows thatthere is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.