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Author Lefanu, Alicia, active 1812-1826. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcWyFx3TrMxF8WcdVJbh3

Title Strathallan (1816) / Alicia Lefanu ; edited by Anna M. Fitzer.

Imprint London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 530 pages)
Series Chawton House library series. Women's novels ; no. 5
Chawton House library series. Woman's novels ; no. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Strathallan (1816) is at once a conventional and subversive romance. Alicia LeFanu is informed by the work of earlier eighteenth-century society satirists such as Frances Brooke and Frances Burney, yet at the same time her interests coincide with those of her more immediate contemporaries Scott and Austen. The novel addresses several themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy, and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthless demands of parental authority." "LeFanu's implicit referencing of Frances Sheridan's examination of similar obligations in Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) places the novel in the context of serious ongoing debates on female education and marriage. Matilda's friend and confidant, Arbella Ferrars, subverts the expectations of such an idealized femininity and is the principle means through which the sardonic and often wickedly wry observations on provincial pretensions are expressed. For Arbella's disruptive brand of coquetry. LeFanu is indebted to Frances Brooke's History of Lady Julia Mandeville and History of Emily Montegue. Notwithstanding the particular merits of this work, its intertextual relation to both earlier fictions and prevalent trends presents an intriguing basis upon which to examine the extent of the women writer's strategic engagement with the literary market."--Jacket
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Select Bibliography; Note on the Text; Strathallan; Endnotes; Textual Variants; Silent Corrections
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Subject Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Women -- Education -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
Manners and customs
Parent and child
Women -- Education
Women -- Social conditions
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Genre/Form Fiction
Added Author Fitzer, Anna M.
Other Form: Print version: Lefanu, Alicia, active 1812-1826. Strathallan (1816). London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008 9781851969609 (OCoLC)226976152
ISBN 9781848932463 (electronic bk.)
1848932464 (electronic bk.)
9781851969609
1851969608