Adeline Mowbray; Author: Opie, Amelia; Editor: Pierce, John; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size

Author: Opie, Amelia; Editor: Pierce, John
Oxford World's Classics (Paperback); Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
330 pages
Published: November 1999
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192833308

Personal as well as political, Adeline Mowbray (1804) is loosely based on the relationship between Amelia Opie's friends, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Encouraged by her mother topursue an interest in radical social ideas, Adeline Mowbray innocently puts her theories of idealized tore into practice, and her attempt to live with the philosopher Frederic Glenmurray outside' marriage is condemned by both her mother and society. This Oxford Worlds Classics volume is currently the only critical edition of Adeline Mowbray available.A major early nineteenth-century radical woman's novel. Personal as well as political, this novel is loosely based on the relationship between Opie's friends, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Written in a period of conservative reaction in Britain it offers an exploration of the world as it is and the world as it ought to be.