num_pages: 494
description: Marriage (1818) is the shrewdly observant tale of a young woman's struggles with parental authority and courtship. Like her contemporaries, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier adopts an ideal of rational domesticity, illustrating the virtues of a reasonable heroine who learns to actfor herself. This new edition features an introduction incorporating recent critical work on national identity and gender, and firmly situating the novel within the context of both Scottish literature and women's writing.
language: English
title: Marriage
titlecomplete: Marriage
characters: Captain Henry Douglas of Glenfern, Juliana Glenfern
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Scotland, Romance, Classics, Marriage, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 376
places: Scotland
publisher: Oxford University Press