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Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel - Frances Sheridan (Paperback)
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Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel - Frances Sheridan (Paperback)
Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
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Frances Sheridan's Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first
novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and
violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of
continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures
in spite of their separation at the beginning of the novel and
remains central to a complex yet coherently drawn web of intriguing
tales situated in palatial apartments and remote moss-covered
castles. Drawing upon the tragic and comic possibilities of
disguise familiar to her from Shakespearean and Restoration drama,
and influenced by the romantic entanglements of early prose
fiction, Sheridan adopts a sometimes satirical approach to
extraordinary events at the same time that she demonstrates a
sincere and convincing commitment to the ingenious art of
storytelling. Sheridan completed the novel in 1739 when she was
just fifteen-years old and Eugenia and Adelaide would prove
instrumental to the establishing of Sheridan's literary reputation
as one of the most successful novelists and dramatists of the
mid-eighteenth century. This is the first modern edition of Eugenia
and Adelaide to be published since the original posthumous
publication of 1791 and presents a unique opportunity to explore
Sheridan's contribution to our current understandings of the
history of women's writing, and of reading tastes and practices in
the long eighteenth century.
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