Full Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivaled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine edition, and excerpts from Sarah Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sarah Fielding: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The History of Ophelia
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
The Monthly Review (April 1760)
The Critical Review (April 1760)
The British Magazine (April 1760)
Appendix B: Material added to the Dublin Edition (1763)
Appendix C: Richard Corbould's Illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine Edition (1785)
Appendix D: A Victorian Critic of Ophelia: Clementina Black's Essay of 1888
Appendix E: Sarah Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa (1749)
Appendix F: From Françoise de Graffigny's Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1748)
Appendix G: From Frances Burney's Evelina (1778)
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