| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 403 pages) |
| Series |
Chawton House library series. Women's novels ; no. 4
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Chawton House library series. Woman's novels ; no. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxii). |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Note on the text -- The romance of private life -- Endnotes -- Silent corrections. |
| Summary |
Contains two tales - "The Renunciation", which presents a colourful picture of life abroad, when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine; and, "The Hermitage", a psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden and an unsolved murder |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Italy.
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Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General. |
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English fiction |
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Psychic trauma |
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Italy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvd8mVMcRhwVmbtcqCPcP |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Gothic fiction.
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| Added Author |
Clark, Lorna J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burney, Sarah Harriet, 1772-1844. Romance of private life (1839). London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008 1851968733 (OCoLC)71542783 |
| ISBN |
9781848932517 (electronic bk.) |
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1848932510 (electronic bk.) |
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1851968733 |
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9781851968732 |
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