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Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Dist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griffin, Elizabeth, active 1799
Otros Autores: Staves, Susan, 1942-, Ricciardi, Cynthia Booth, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wives.
Marriage.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Femmes mariees > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mariage > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Wives > Fiction.
Marriage > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage -- the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epi.
Notas:LETTER 62. Lady WOODVILLE, TO Lady STRAFFON.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780813157931

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