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A cultivated poor young woman, Emily Hood, from a small town in the north of England works as a governess in a wealthy country family. She falls in love with her employer's son, Wilfrid Athel, and the two are engaged. However, during a visit to her parents' home, she is confronted by her father's employer, Dagworthy, who threatens to expose her father as a thief unless Emily marries him.
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Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Shakespeare's play in which the course of true love never runs smoothly. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a "play within a play" and the antics in fairyland produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily.
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The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental realism in its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure classes of the mid-eighteenth century. In his new introduction, editor John Richetti examines how Haywood's amusing and engaging prose explores the subtleties of eighteenth-century courtship. Out of print since the early nineteenth century, The History of Jemmy and Jenny
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Operas--Librettos. --- Orphans. --- Courtship.
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Through a fortuitous series of events, brave Ethelberta has risen from a humble family background to marry well, travel the world, and emerge as a popular poet and author. Will she be able to overcome her lower-class roots and make her way in the world when her husband's untimely demise leaves her wholly in charge of her own fortune?
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Courtship. --- Theseus, King of Athens. --- Hippolyta (Greek mythological character).
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Courtship. --- Theseus, King of Athens. --- Hippolyta (Greek mythological character).
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