Delicate Distress-Pa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813109251)

" The Delicate Distress (1769) focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage-the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien régime, Elizabeth Griffith takes the epistolary nove

Author: Elizabeth Griffith
ISBN-10: 0813109256
ISBN-13: 9780813109251
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1997
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.05w x 0.84d