Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays (Author), Eleanor Ty (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780192823069
Publisher : Oxford University Press, March 28, 1996
Paperback, 266 pages
Memoirs of Emma Courtney is one of the most articulate and detailed expressions of the yearnings and frustrations of a woman living in late eighteenth-century English society. It questions marital arrangements and courtship rituals by depicting a woman who actively pursues the man she loves. In this first fully annotated edition of a key sentimental novel, Hays reveals the lamentable gap between "what women are" and "what women ought to be" by exploring the links between sexaulity and desire, and economic and social freedom.