Description
Contains two tales - "The Renunciation", which presents a colourful picture of life abroad, when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine; and, "The Hermitage", a psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden and an unsolved murder.
Reviews
'Clark has done a masterful job of resurrecting a work that further illuminates the world of women's fiction in the early nineteenth century.' Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 'an impeccable edition for scholars which will certainly draw the attention of those concerned with women's literature and its evolution during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781851968732
Author Lorna Clark
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 725g
Reviews
'Clark has done a masterful job of resurrecting a work that further illuminates the world of women's fiction in the early nineteenth century.' Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 'an impeccable edition for scholars which will certainly draw the attention of those concerned with women's literature and its evolution during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781851968732
Author Lorna Clark
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 725g
