Marriage

by Susan Ferrier

Overview

MARRIAGE (1818) is the shrewdly observant tale of a young woman's struggles with parental authority and courtship. This new edition features an Introduction that incorporates recent critical work on national identity and gender--and firmly situates the novel within the context of both Scottish literature and women's writing. 416 pp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781530946600
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782-1854) was a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. Her novels explored vivid accounts of Scottish life and presented sharp views on women's education which remained popular throughout the nineteenth century.

She wrote Marriage, The Inheritance and Destiny, and was, in her day, more widely read than her contemporary Jane Austen. She died in 1854.

Editorial Reviews

11/05/2018
With her sharp eye for human foibles and fancies, Scottish author Ferrier (1782–1854) outsold her contemporary Jane Austen with witty stories of Scottish social life. Two centuries later, her first novel returns to print, following two generations of women whose desires lead them to disparate fates. At 17, Lady Juliana, daughter of an earl, is certain she “shouldn’t at all mind being poor.” But when she shuns the wealthy but odious duke selected by her father and elopes with a “captivating Scotsman,” she is appalled by everything about his family and life, including the ramshackle family castle surrounded by “dingy turnip fields,” bagpipe music, the Scottish diet, and the swarm of long-chinned spinster aunts and hovering sisters. Later, Juliana happily hands off one of her twin baby girls—whom she refers to as plagues—to her husband’s sister to raise. Nurture defies nature and the two girls mature into very different people with morally deserved fates. Ferrier writes with crisp, telling details and a knack for naming characters (Mrs. Wiseacre, Lady Dull). This reprint should delight modern fans of stories of manners much as it did readers 200 years ago. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Ferrier writes with crisp, telling details and a knack for naming characters (Mrs. Wiseacre, Lady Dull). This reprint should delight modern fans of stories of manners much as it did readers two hundred years ago—Publishers Weekly

On the two hundredth anniversary of the first publication of Marriage, Edinburgh is reclaiming Susan Ferrier as the equal of Scottish greats in literature —Sir Walter Scott and Arthur Conan Doyle

A forgotten literary heroine - the nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier—Vanessa Thorpe, Guardian

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