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East Lynne(Reprint)
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Ellen Wood, Elisabeth Jay
Paperback, 694 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953603-0, ISBN: 0-19-953603-1
"'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!' When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. Ellen Wood played upon the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more r ..."
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