Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Secresy - Second Edition
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Secresy - Second Edition
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460404084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460404084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock
Author: E. Fenwick
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Sibella Valmont is a young girl trapped in a huge castle by her mysteriously cruellest uncle, Mr. George Valmont, in this exhilarating mystery tale by Eliza Fenwick. Will she find a way to escape the gloomy fortress?
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Sibella Valmont is a young girl trapped in a huge castle by her mysteriously cruellest uncle, Mr. George Valmont, in this exhilarating mystery tale by Eliza Fenwick. Will she find a way to escape the gloomy fortress?
Secresy
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781493529742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A novel of letters exchanged between two young women, Caroline Ashburn, the sensible daughter of a rich but foolish mother, and Sibella Valmont, who lives in enforced isolation in her strange uncle's moated castle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781493529742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A novel of letters exchanged between two young women, Caroline Ashburn, the sensible daughter of a rich but foolish mother, and Sibella Valmont, who lives in enforced isolation in her strange uncle's moated castle.
Martin V. Mackonochie
Lord Brougham Displayed
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Journal
Author: Military Service Institution of the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Freemason's Repository
Gems of Odd Fellowship in Prose and Poetry
Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description