Revolution and Romanticism

A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth

ISBN 1 85477 188 4

245 x 175mm
778 as 208 pages

This is a long novel, published originally in three volumes. To keep the selling price within bounds we have used a large page size, each page containing four pages of the original with the type size slightly reduced.

AMELIA OPIE

Adeline Mowbray 1805

Amelia Alderson came from a Unitarian family and entered the Godwin circle at the time of the Treason Trials of 1794. She greatly admired both Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, then turned away from them gradually after her marriage to the painter John Opie. Adeline Mowbray is on one level a satire on her former friends (the main characters being fictionalized younger versions of Godwin and Wollstonecraft); on a more interesting level this ambitious and reflective novel is a tale for women about their roles in the early years of the new century.

£55 $85

It would have entertained you highly to have seen him bid me farewell. He wished to salute [kiss] me, but his courage failed him, ‘While oft he looked back, and was loth to depart’. ‘Will you give me nothing to keep for your sake, and console me during my absence,’ murmured out the Philosopher, ‘not even your slipper? I had it in my possession once, and need not have returned it.’ This was true; my shoe had come off, and he had put it in his pocket for some time.
(Amelia Alderson, on Godwin’ s taking leave of her, June 1795)



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