The Busy-bodies: Edited & annotated by Lisa Baptie - Couverture souple

Corbett, The Misses; Baptie, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798319290335

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

The Busy-bodies is an original, but overlooked, novel from the Regency era, written and set in Portobello, Edinburgh, in 1827. The Misses Corbett introduce us to Sir Thomas Lennox and his family as they take a house for the season in the fashionable seaside village, then lead us through the twists and turns of their tumultuous whirlwind of a summer. More raucous than Austen, it tells a romantic story, couched in comedy and touched by tragedy. The lively dialogue and local language makes this book fresh and alive, 200 years after it was written. It was rejected by the community at the time for coming to close to home, but it is just that familiarity that makes it fun to ready today.

This edition is different to the original in these ways:

• 3 volumes combined in one for first time.
• Minor revisions to text.
• Editor’s introduction giving biographical details about the authors and local contemporaries.
• Annotated throughout; footnotes provide historical context and social information.
• Glossary of local language.
• Bibliography and Resource list.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798319290335
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 451
• Éditeur: Baptie Lisa
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