Adeline Mowbray: Or, the Mother and Daughter (Mothers of the novel) - Softcover

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Anne McWhir's new edition of Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray deftly positions the text in its larger cultural and global context. It also pays notable attention to the author's revisions of the text over the course of the nineteenth century, thus leading us to consider the ways in which conventions associated with the Victorian novel evolve out of Romantic-era fiction." - Roxanne Eberle, University of Georgia --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1827. Excerpt: ... "But how do you know that she is?" "Oh! because I went to church with them, and my mother cooked the wedding-dinner, and I ate plumbpudding and drank punch, and we were very merry-- only my mother cried, because my father could not come." "Very circumstantial evidence, indeed!" cried Langley, "and I am very sorry that 1 did not know so much before. So you and your mother love this extraordinary fine woman, Mrs Berrendale, heh?" "Love her ! To be sure--we should be very wicked if we did not. Did you never hear the story of the pineapple?" said the tawny boy. "Not I. What was it?" and the tawny boy, delighted to tell the story, with sparkling eyes sat down to relate it. "You must know, Mr Glenmurray longed for a pineapple." "Mrs Glenmurray you mean," said Mary, laughing immoderately. "I know what I say," replied the tawny boy angrily; And so Miss Adeline, as she was then called, went out to buy one; well, and so she met my poor father going to prison, and I was crying after her, and so--" Here he paused, and bursting into tears exclaimed, " And perhaps she is crying herself now, and I must go and see for her directly."

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