num_pages: 504
description: An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here and hereand here.Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.
language: English
title: The Portrait of a Lady
titlecomplete: The Portrait of a Lady
characters: Edward Rosier, Caspar Goodwood, Madame Merle, Lord Warburton, Lydia Touchett, Henrietta Stackpole, Gilbert Osmond, Pansy Osmond, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer
genres: Fiction, American, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 79299
places: England, Florence, Tuscany, Rome, Italy
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd