The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other TimesFirst published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and marriage, this novel portrays women involved in political intrigues and overseas journeys. It is set during the reign of Elizabeth I, and features as narrators, fictional daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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... RECESS AS GOTHIC FICTION Its ability to move contemporary readers to terror and sympathy was not the only important achievement of The Recess . While working successfully within an aesthetic that Richardson had helped to establish in ...
... RECESS AS GOTHIC FICTION Its ability to move contemporary readers to terror and sympathy was not the only important achievement of The Recess . While working successfully within an aesthetic that Richardson had helped to establish in ...
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... Recess on Scott's Woodstock , Redgauntlet , and The Abbot as well.44 Those who did remember The Recess did not think Scott had surpassed it : a reader observed in 1831 that " the great novelist of the north has yet to excite a sym ...
... Recess on Scott's Woodstock , Redgauntlet , and The Abbot as well.44 Those who did remember The Recess did not think Scott had surpassed it : a reader observed in 1831 that " the great novelist of the north has yet to excite a sym ...
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Sophia Lee April Alliston. BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS OF THE RECESS The Recess ; or , A Tale of Other Times . 3 vols . London : T. Cadell , 1783-85 . The first edition . The first volume was published in 1783 and reissued when the second and ...
Sophia Lee April Alliston. BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS OF THE RECESS The Recess ; or , A Tale of Other Times . 3 vols . London : T. Cadell , 1783-85 . The first edition . The first volume was published in 1783 and reissued when the second and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | vii |
Notes to the Introduction | xxxviii |
Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Copyright | |
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