A simple story / Elizabeth Inchbald ; edited with notes by J.M.S. Tompkins ; with an introduction by Jane Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.

Contributor:

Tompkins, J. M. S. (Joyce Marjorie Sanxter), 1897-1986.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 345 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question of a woman's "proper education," and her sureness of touch and subtlety of characterization prefigure Jane Austen's work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

019283598X

OCLC:

40865932