1st Edition
Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique
Edited By Caroline Franklin
Copyright 2022
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Series Preface
Introduction
Celia in Search of a Husband, Vol. I.
Celia in Search of a Husband, Vol. II.
Editorial Notes
Biography
Caroline Franklin is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Swansea University. She is an expert on Lord Byron, Romantic-period culture, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century women’s writing and correspondence. She has edited many volumes of rare novels, poetry and travel writing by women, and provided several entries on lesser-known nineteenth-century female novelist, for the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
