The RecessFirst published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and ended with marriage, The Recess daringly portrays women involved in political intrigues, overseas journeys, and even warfare. The novel is set during the reign of Elizabeth I and features as narrators twin daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots, by a secret marriage. One of the earliest Gothic novels, The Recess pioneered the genre of historical fiction. The novel was also one of the first to describe characters and events from conflicting points of view and was wildly popular in its day. |
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Page xiii
... suffered from the extreme vulnerability to moral criticism shared by female contemporaries. Her first and last works, both plays, were criticized on these grounds. The very title of the last, The Assignation, was considered shockingly ...
... suffered from the extreme vulnerability to moral criticism shared by female contemporaries. Her first and last works, both plays, were criticized on these grounds. The very title of the last, The Assignation, was considered shockingly ...
Page xxxiii
... suffered a great deal from this frustrated attachment. Only a year later Lee's elder sister, Charlotte, ran off with a man well beneath the Lees in station and income, apparently alienating her sisters and giving up her interest in ...
... suffered a great deal from this frustrated attachment. Only a year later Lee's elder sister, Charlotte, ran off with a man well beneath the Lees in station and income, apparently alienating her sisters and giving up her interest in ...
Page xxxvi
... suffering which is a sad distinction of my sex. I well know, that neither philosophy, wit, nor even ridicule, can stifle in nature its first and strongest feeling. When sentiment is impassioned by situation, it will always find its way ...
... suffering which is a sad distinction of my sex. I well know, that neither philosophy, wit, nor even ridicule, can stifle in nature its first and strongest feeling. When sentiment is impassioned by situation, it will always find its way ...
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Contents
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Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Note on the Text | xlix |
The Recess or A Tale of Other Times | 1 |
Emendations | 327 |
Notes to the Novel | 331 |
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affection alike Ann Radcliffe appeared arms behold bosom Cecil character 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 married 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 shewed sighed silence sister Sophia Lee soul suffer sunk surprize sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion voice wish wretch youth