A Simple Story · Elizabeth Inchbald

This week’s list includes A Simple Story, from Elizabeth Inchbald. Press play and stay for every chapter.

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society’s standards of proper womanly behavior.n Like other women writers of her time,n Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question of a woman’s “proper education,” and her sureness of touch and subtlety of characterization prefigure Jane Austen’s work.n

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