Ebook: East Lynne
Author: Jay Elisabeth, Wood Ellen
- Tags: Accident victims, Governesses, Illegitimate children, Runaway wives, Seduction, Fiction, Biography, Runaway wives -- Fiction, Illegitimate children -- Fiction, Accident victims -- Fiction, Governesses -- Fiction, Seduction -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, France -- Fiction, England, France
- Series: Oxford world's classics
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: UK;New York;England;France;Oxford
- Language: English
- epub
"This book looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. In this novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery"--Provided by publisher.
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