Helen,
by Maria Edgeworth; illustrated by Chris Hammond, with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.

Description

Main Author

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849

Related Names

Turbayne, A. A. (Albert Angus), 1866-1940
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919.
Hammond, Christine M. Demain, active 1886-1910.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919, editor.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919, ed.
R. & R. Clark (Firm)

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Macmillan and co., ltd.; 1896.

Subjects

Cloth bindings (Bookbinding) > Cloth bindings (Bookbinding) / Specimens.
Truthfulness and falsehood > Truthfulness and falsehood / England > Truthfulness and falsehood / England / 19th century > Truthfulness and falsehood / England / 19th century / Fiction.
Socialites > Socialites / England > Socialites / England / 19th century > Socialites / England / 19th century / Fiction.
Upper class > Upper class / England > Upper class / England / 19th century > Upper class / England / 19th century / Fiction.
Courtship > Courtship / England > Courtship / England / 19th century > Courtship / England / 19th century / Fiction.
Young women > Young women / England > Young women / England / 19th century > Young women / England / 19th century / Fiction.
Women authors
Women
England > England / Social life and customs > England / Social life and customs / 19th century > England / Social life and customs / 19th century / Fiction
Novels of manners
Art Deco bindings (Binding) > Art Deco bindings (Binding) / 1896
Fiction

Summary

A novel of manners and conversation in the patrician social mielieu of England and London in the 1820's and 1803's. It begins as a novel of courtship, destined to end with the happy betrothal of its heroine, the orphaned Helen Stanley, but it soon turns into the story of Helen's friend Lady Cecilia Clarendon, and the crumbling of her marriage as her beguiling and harmless lies, not told in malice, becomes self-destructive to those whom she loves

Physical Description

xiv, 488, [2] p. ncl. front., illus. 20 cm.

Locate a Print Version

Find in a library

Viewability