Letters of Miss Riversdale: A Novel ; in Three Volumes, Band 2J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1803 "First edition of a very rare epistolary novel with a largely European setting (Switzerland and France, before the French Revolution). It is a complex, philosophical work with a wide cast of characters that amply merits a modern rediscovery; in particularly, it is concerned with themes of jealousy, reason vs impulse, reputation, the struggle of women against the strictures of society, and the contrasting cultural mores of France and England. It presents itself as truth dressed in the garb of fiction, and is 'dedicated' by the (male) to one of the characters under a 'fictitious name', Mrs. Blanford." - Bernard Quaritch Ltd., The Downshire novels (2020) |
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