The history of Ophelia
"In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivalled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter." "This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations t…
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- Full title :The history of Ophelia / Sarah Fielding ; edited by Peter Sabor.
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"In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivalled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter." "This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine edition, and excerpts from Sarah Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Broadview Press
- Place of Publication:Peterborough, Ont
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:320 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1551111209, 9781551111209
- oclc:ocm54373222
- LC Classification:PR3459.F3
- Dewey Decimal:823/.5
Table of Contents
Sarah Fielding: A brief Chronology -- A Note on the Text -- The History of Ophelia -- Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews 1. The Monthly Review (April 1760), 2. (The Critical Review (April 1760), 3. The British Magazine (April 1760) -- Appendix B: Material added to the Dublin edition (1763) -- Appendix C: Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine edition (1785) -- Appendix D: A Victorian Critic of Ophelia -- Clementina Black's essay of 1888 -- Appendix E: Sarah Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa (1749) -- Appendix F: From Françoise de Graffigny's Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1748) -- Appendix G: From Frances Burney's Evelina (1778) -- Select Bibliography.
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