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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Page 106
... dangers I had shared and es- caped with my Lord , to see him depart , was to quit my guardian angel , or to deprive ... danger and escape , recommended to them that profound silence the villains had preserved towards us with such fatal ...
... dangers I had shared and es- caped with my Lord , to see him depart , was to quit my guardian angel , or to deprive ... danger and escape , recommended to them that profound silence the villains had preserved towards us with such fatal ...
Page 115
... danger . With an exhausted sullenness we surveyed those roaring surges , whose hollows fancy could not venture to fathom , and saw ourselves driven almost back to the shore of England , without strength or spirits even to lament our ...
... danger . With an exhausted sullenness we surveyed those roaring surges , whose hollows fancy could not venture to fathom , and saw ourselves driven almost back to the shore of England , without strength or spirits even to lament our ...
Page 321
... danger soon over - ruled every other ; they urged , they conjured me to leave my Mary , now apparently lifeless ... danger of that fatal fire which raged within my veins : danger did I say ? —I ought rather to have called it relief ...
... danger soon over - ruled every other ; they urged , they conjured me to leave my Mary , now apparently lifeless ... danger of that fatal fire which raged within my veins : danger did I say ? —I ought rather to have called it relief ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | vii |
Notes to the Introduction | xxxviii |
Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Copyright | |
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affection alike Ann Radcliffe appeared arms behold bosom Cecil charm conduct Court cried danger dared daughter dear death Dornock dreadful Duke duke of Norfolk Earl Elizabeth Ellinor England eyes fancy fatal fate favorite fear fortune Frances Burney gave Goldsmith Gothic Gothic fiction Gothic novel grief hand happy heart Heaven Hester Piozzi hope Hume idea indulgence Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle King knew Lady Arundel Lady Pembroke Lady Southampton Lee's letter London Lord Arlington Lord Burghley Lord Essex Lord Leicester lover Madam marriage Mary Matilda mind misfortune Mortimer mother nature never noble Norfolk novel once passion perhaps Piozzi pleasure Prince prison Queen of Scots Recess resolved retired Robertson safety secret seemed sense sensible servants shewed sighed silence sister Sophia Lee soul suffer sunk surprize sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion Tracey voice wish wretch youth