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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women |
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Eighteenth-century novels by women.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; The Delicate Distress; Dedication; Preface; Volume I. Letters 1-36; LETTER I. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 2. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 3. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 4. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 5. Sir JA. THORNTON, TO LordWOODVILLE.; LETTER 6. From Lord WOODVILLE, TO Sir JAMES THORNTON.; LETTER 7. Lord SEYMOUR, TO Lord WOODVILLE.; LETTER 8. Lord WOODVILLE, TO Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 9. Lord SEYMOUR, TO Lord WOODVILLE.; LETTER 10. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON |
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LETTER 11 .Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE. LETTER 12. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 13. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; The Memoir of Lady HARRIET HANBURY; LETTER 14. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 15. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 16. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; THE LETTER.; LETTER 17. Lady STRAFFON, To Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 18. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 19. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 20. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 21. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 22. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON |
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The HISTORY of Miss CHARLOTTE BEAUMONT. LETTER 24. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 25. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 26. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 27. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 28. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 29. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 30. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 31. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 32. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 33. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 34. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 35. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE |
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LETTER 36. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON. Volume II. Letters 37-94; LETTER 37. LordWOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 38. Lord SEYMOUR, To Lord WOODVILLE.; LETTER 39. Lord WOODVILLE, TO Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 40. LordWOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 41. LordWOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 42. Lord WOODVILLE, TO Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 43. LordWOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 44. Lord SEYMOUR, TO LordWOODVILLE.; LETTER 45. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 46. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 47. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 48. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE |
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LETTER 49. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON. LETTER 50. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 51. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 52. Lord WOODVILLE, TO Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 53. Lord SEYMOUR, TO LordWOODVILLE.; LETTER 54. Lord WOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 55. Lord SEYMOUR, TO Lord WOODVILLE; LETTER 56. Lord WOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 57. Lord SEYMOUR, TO Lord WOODVILLE.; LETTER 58. Lord WOODVILLE, To Lord SEYMOUR.; LETTER 59. Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE.; LETTER 60. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.; LETTER 61 .Lady STRAFFON, TO Lady WOODVILLE |
| Summary |
Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage -- the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epi |
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LETTER 62. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON |
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Print version record |
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Marriage -- Fiction
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Wives -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Marriage
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Wives
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ricciardi, Cynthia Booth, 1959-
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Staves, Susan, 1942-
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| ISBN |
9780813157931 |
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0813157935 |
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