" First published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and ended with marriage, The Recess daringly portrays women involved in political intrigues, overseas journeys, and even warfare. The novel is set during the reign of Elizabeth I and features as narrators twin daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots, by a secret marriage. One of the earliest Gothic novels, The Recess pioneered the genre of historical fiction. The novel was also one of the first to describe characters and events from conflicting points of view and was wildly popular in its day.
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"Will interest both lovers of the gothic genre and those wishing to explore the literary tradition to which Austen pays smiling tribute in Northanger Abbey." -- Jane Austen Society of North America Newsletter
"Tells the supposed life story of twin sisters, unacknowledged daughters of Mary Stuart who are brought up in the subterranean recess of an abandoned abbey." -- Rain Taxi Review of Books
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the Author
Sophia Lee (1750-1824) was the daughter of successful actors and the headmistress, with her sisters, of Bath’s finest school for girls.
April Alliston is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: The Recess (Volume 2); Or, a Tale of Other Times (Paperback)
This is either the worst prepared edition of a novel I have ever seen (7 errors in the first 1/2 page) or they (General Books)are operating according to some very bizarre notions--perhaps both. It's almost unreadable. No, I take that back. It gets worse as I go on--much worse. It's damned insulting and I'm thinking of asking for my money back. This appears not to be the U of Kentucky P edition.
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After a long and painful journey through life, with a heart exhausted by afflictions, and eyes which can no longer supply tears to lament them, I turn my every thought toward that gave on the verge of which I hover. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lord Leicester, Lord Arlington, Lady Arundel, Lord Essex, Queen of Scots, Lord Burghley, Lord Scrope, Lady Scrope, Miss Cecil, Vincent's Abbey, Sir Philip, Laird of Dornock, Lady Essex, Lady Mortimer, Sir Francis, Miss Walsingham, Lord Southampton, Prince of Wales, Sir David, Lord Deputy, Earl of Essex, Prince Henry, Lady Leicester, Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke New!
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After a long and painful journey through life, with a heart exhausted by afflictions, and eyes which can no longer supply tears to lament them, I turn my every thought toward that gave on the verge of which I hover. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
impassioned tears, gracious heaven, royal mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Leicester, Lord Arlington, Lady Arundel, Lord Essex, Queen of Scots, Lord Burghley, Lord Scrope, Lady Scrope, Miss Cecil, Vincent's Abbey, Sir Philip, Laird of Dornock, Lady Essex, Lady Mortimer, Sir Francis, Miss Walsingham, Lord Southampton, Prince of Wales, Sir David, Lord Deputy, Earl of Essex, Prince Henry, Lady Leicester, Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke New!
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- The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 by Hester Lynch Piozzi on 7 pages
- The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel by Montague Summers on 5 pages
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on 5 pages
- The Castle of Otranto (Classic, Modern, Penguin) by Horace Walpole on 4 pages
- Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 80) (Internationale Forschungen ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) by Patrick Bridgwater in Back Matter
- The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (Translation/Transnation) by Margaret Cohen on page 152
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