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Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique (Hardcover)
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Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique (Hardcover)
Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
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This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable
scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.
Celia in Search of a Husband is a high-spirited and entertaining
example of an anti-Jacobin novel, written at the height of the
backlash against female intellectuals during the Napoleonic wars.
Despite this hostile climate, the author sought to acknowledge the
importance of female education and independence whilst at the same
time endorsing the traditional Christian teaching that a wife
should be subordinate to her husband. Although second wave
feminists prioritized the progressive writers with whom they more
readily identified, more recent scholarship has rightly paid close
attention to conservative or moralist writers such as Miss Byron
and recognized how influential they were. Accompanied by extensive
editorial commentary, this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband
contributes to this scholarship on the literary history of women's
writing, and will be a welcome to those with a particularly
interest in women's writing, satiric novels and spoofs, and Jane
Austen.
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