num_pages: 384
description: When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on thequestion of a woman's "proper education," and her sureness of touch and subtlety of characterization prefigure Jane Austen's work.
language: English
title: A Simple Story
titlecomplete: A Simple Story
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, School, Romance, 18th Century, Classics, Novels, Literature, Feminism
ratings_count: 917
publisher: Oxford University Press