Walsingham is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson
on her society's constraints upon women. The novel follows the
lives of two main characters, Walsingham Ainsforth and his cousin,
Sir Sidney Aubrey, a girl who is passed off as a son by her mother
so that she will become the family heir. Sidney, educated in
France, returns to England as an adult and persistently sabotages
Walsingham's love interests (having secretly fallen in love with
him herself). Eventually, Sidney reveals her identity, and she and
Walsingham declare their mutual love, wed, and share the family's
estate. This Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary
sources material including contemporary reviews; historical and
literary accounts of eighteenth-century female cross-dressers; and
selections from contemporary works that focus on the figure of the
"fallen" woman.
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