num_pages: 640
description: By using the 1882 edition of The Portrait of a Lady, the text reflects more clearly the culture from and to which it was written. A significant number of fairly contemporary materials deal with etiquette/behavior, conceptions of the American girl and the American woman, discussions of Americans (especially girls/women) living abroad, and international marriages. Magazine and newspapers articles of the period also help to place Isabel Archer in a historical context. The volume includes reprints of contemporary reviews, emphasizing those that found the ending of the novel perplexing.
language: English
title: The Portrait of a Lady
titlecomplete: The Portrait of a Lady (New Riverside Editions)
characters: Gilbert Osmond, Caspar Goodwood, Lydia Touchett, Madame Merle, Pansy Osmond, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer, Henrietta Stackpole, Lord Warburton, Edward Rosier
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 79293
places: England, Rome, Italy, Florence, Tuscany
publisher: Wadsworth Publishing