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This review is from: Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle (Mothers of the Novel) (Paperback)
This bookmade Charlotte Smith's fortune and reputation and was followed by about a book a year until theend of the decade. Unfortunately the quality of the books to follow often wasn't as good. This isan awesome book about a woman stalked by a rich, good-looking, well-connected man who is aninsensitive jerk. Emmeline is able to see this and cares more for her female friends until the heroenters the novel. Emmeline's female friends are anything but conventional--one has an adulterousaffair and a baby out of wedlock, and another leaves her husband because he is a financial idiot (hetries to use old wigs as fertilizer!) Big, long, and full of detail of life in 1788, Emmeline isa good read. Unless of course you are a modern novel lover like the famed modern novelist whowrote the introduction to the Pandora edition and feels that maybe--if you accept that the novel istrashy soap opera--the book is worth buying more than a salad. The salad argument struck me asjust another reason why I can't relate to modern authors ...
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