The old manor house
By: [by] Charlotte Smith; edited with an introduction by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis.
Contributors: Ehrenpreis, Anne Henry, ed.
Series: Oxford English novels
Publisher: Oxford U.P.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Women landowners -- Fiction; Women domestics -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Manors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable members, the dispossessed. --www.barnesandnoble.com.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xxvii]