Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Emma
Unfortunate attachment
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gross, Jonathan David, 1962-
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| ISBN: | 142373954X
9781423739548
9780791461464
0791461467
9780791461457
0791461459
0791484807
9780791484807
0791461467
0791461459
9780791484807
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | "Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire"--Page 4 of cover.
"Seven independent sources list her [Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire] as author, including the most recent and definitive work on the subject, The English novel, which atttibutes the novel to her with a question mark"--Page 10.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this epistolary novel explores the "unfortunate attachment" of Emma Eggerton to William Walpole. Forbidden by her father to marry the man she loves, Emma resigns herself to marrying Walpole, her father's autocratic choice of a husband. The novel's other unfortunate attachment concerns Colonel Sutton, who falls prey to the "low" machinations of the confirmed flirt Harriet Courtney. Like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana's Emma explores the dangers of first impressions and arranged marriages, but does so from the vantage point of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both." "Originally published when the author was only sixteen, and long out of print, Emma anticipates many of the major events of Georgiana's own life, and taken together with her second novel, The Sylph, it offers significant insights into the outlook of aristocratic women in the late eighteenth century. An Introduction by Jonathan David Gross sets the novel in the context of its time and explores the questions surrounding its authorship."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806. Emma, or, The unfortunate attachment. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004 0791461467 0791461459
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