A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics)
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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.
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Beautiful as she had appeared to Miss Woodley and to Dorriforth the preceding day, when she joined them the next morning at breakfast, repossessed of her lively elegance and dignified simplicity, they gazed at her, and at each other alternately, with wonder!--and Mrs. Horton, as she sat at the head of her tea-table, felt herself but as a menial servant, such command has beauty if united with sense and with virtue.--In Miss Milner it was so united. --Yet let not our over-scrupulous readers be misled, and extend their idea of her virtue so as to magnify it beyond that which frail mortals commonly possess.
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A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics),Elizabeth Inchbald,J. M. S. Tompkins,Jane Spencer,Oxford University Press, USA,019283598X,Classics,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Science Fiction - General,Women's Studies - General,19th century fiction,British Isles,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 18th C
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