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"I finished "The Heroine" last night and was very much amused by
it. It diverted me exceedingly. I have torn through the third
volume; I do not think it falls off. It is a delightful
burlesque..." - Jane Austen
""Everybody" has read "The Heroine"]. There is no one so
superlatively unhappy as not to have done this thing. But if such
there be - if by any possibility such person should exist, we have
only a few words to say to him. Go, silly man, and purchase
forthwith '"The Heroine: or Adventures of Cherubina."' There are
few books written with more tact, spirit, naivete, or grace, ...]
and none more fairly entitled to rank among the classics of English
literature than the Heroine of Eaton Stannard Barrett." - Edgar
Allan Poe, in "The Southern Literary Messenger" (1835)
Young Cherry Wilkinson, the daughter of a farmer, has read one
too many Gothic novels. And when she discovers a mysterious
fragment of parchment and an antiquated portrait in her father's
desk, she becomes convinced that she is a heroine and an heiress,
and that the farmer is not her father, but instead an assassin with
designs upon her life.
Renaming herself Cherubina, she deserts her home and sets off on
a mad romp across England, determined to recover her lost domains
and unravel her true parentage. But after a series of madcap and
hilarious adventures, she comes to find that modern-day English law
and society do not always permit a young lady to behave like a
character out of a romantic tale. And when a handsome but dissolute
young actor learns of Cherry's father's wealth and her mania for
Gothic novels and styles himself Lord Montmorenci in an attempt to
deceive her into a marriage, Cherubina will need all of her
heroine's wit to defeat the nefarious plot
A brilliant comic novel that went through numerous editions in
its time and earned widespread critical acclaim, "The Heroine"
(1813) has recently been badly neglected and has been out of print
for almost a century. This edition features a substantial new
introduction by internationally known Gothic scholars Avril Horner
and Sue Zlosnik, the unabridged text of the first edition, and
detailed endnotes.
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The Heroine (Paperback)
The Perfect Library; Eaton Stannard Barrett
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