The romance of private life (1839)
Record details
- ISBN: 9781851968732
- ISBN: 1851968733
- ISBN: 1848932510
- ISBN: 9781848932517
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxv, 403 pages)
remote - Publisher: London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxii). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Note on the text -- The romance of private life -- Endnotes -- Silent corrections. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | English fiction -- Italy Psychic trauma -- Fiction Roman anglais -- Italie Traumatisme psychique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc FICTION -- General English fiction Psychic trauma Italy |
Genre: | Fiction Gothic fiction. |
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Summary:
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