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Walsingham: Or, The Pupil of Nature

Walsingham (1797) is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society's constraints upon women. The novel follows the story of two main characters, Walsingham Ainsforth and his cousin, Sir Sidney Aubrey. Sidney, educated in France, returns to England as an adult and persistently sabotages Walsingham's love interests.

This Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source material, including: contemporary reviews, historical and literary accounts of eighteenth-century female crossdressers; and selections from contemporary works that focus on the figure of the "fallen" woman.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 559
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781551112992
  • Genres
  • classics, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2003