Delicate Distress-Pa

by Elizabeth Griffith

Book Overview

" 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 r?gime,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813109256
• ISBN13: 9780813109251
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher