Eliza Fenwick: Secresy; or, the Ruin on the Rock
Posted in Entries by Leena, Fiction: 18th century, tagged educational theories, Eliza Fenwick, Gothic, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft on February 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Eliza Fenwick was a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, so no wonder that her novel Secresy (sic, 1795) has a feminist - well: I was going to say ’subtext’ or ‘undertone’, but that isn’t quite adequate, as the feminism here is overt. This is an epistolary novel, the letters exchanged for the most part between two young women, Caroline Ashburn - [...]
