Product Description

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107620 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
The late J.M.S. Tompkins edited the OEN text from which edition derives

Customer Reviews

A compulsive read - full of anticipation!

This novel is an excellent insight into the behaviour and emotions of people living long ago. From the opening of the first chapter, one is completely enthralled and absolutely addicted to the constant anticipation of what is to come. The first half of the book almost makes the ending seem predictable - until about the middle, when everything is turned on its head and leaves the reader completely moved and somewhat 'scarred' for having read it.

Beautifully written and magnificent!

You cannot afford not to read this book!