A Simple Story - Couverture souple

Inchbald, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 019281849X ISBN 13 : 9780192818492

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

This novel by Inchbald (1753-1821) follows the original 1791 edition, edited by Tompkins in 1967 for the Oxford English novels series and with a new introduction by Spencer. It is concerned with the question of a woman's "proper education and behaviour", introducing Miss Milner, who announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest. The conflict they begin can only be resolved in the next generation. Spencer has also written "The Rise of the Woman Novelist: from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Simple Story

As an authentic memoir of Mrs. Inchbald, composed from documents in her own hand-writing, is shortly to be published, we shall confine ourselves, on the present occasion, of the admission of her Tales in "The Standard Novels," to a detail of the leading facts of her life which have never yet been given with even tolerable accuracy.

Elizabeth Inchbald was the last child but one of the numerous family of John and Mary Simpson, of Standingfield, in Suffolk, and born on the 15th of October, 1753. Her father died when she was but eight years old, and her mother was left to struggle, deeply encumbered, with the concerns of a farm which we believe was the sole source of profit, and indeed maintenance, to the family.

Mrs. Inchbald has told us that she never was sent to school, and never had any governess or preceptor. In that particular she resembled Miss Burney, another writer of novels, and her equal in the delineation of character and passion. But the latter lady lived at least in the atmosphere of letters, and her father was a man of science and refinement.

The family of the Simpsons was Catholic; and the neighbourhood abounded in respectable persons of that communion, who willingly extended their friendship to the interesting farm-house at Standingfield, where the daughters were spoken of as amiable and handsome girls; Elizabeth particularly admired, though she has candidly admit ted that her sister Deborah was handsomer than herself. Elizabeth had a defect to surmount which caused her infinite vexation - she, from her infancy, stammered; and yet the early passion of her mind was to be an actress.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

With an Introduction by G. L. Strachey

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019281849X
• ISBN 13: 9780192818492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible