Moral Tales: A Selection

ISBN-13: 9781554815500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Amelia Opie

Spis treści

• Introduction
  • The Moral Tale
  • Hannah More
  • Amelia Alderson Opie
  • Maria Edgeworth
  Moral Tales: A Selection
  • Hannah More, 'Tawney Rachel,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97)
  • Hannah More, 'The Servant Man Turned Soldier,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97)
  • Amelia Opie, 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' Simple Tales (1806)
  • Amelia Opie, 'The Soldier's Return,' Simple Tales (1806)
  • Maria Edgeworth, 'The Dun,' Tales of Fashionable Life (1809)
  In Context
  • A. Contemporary Reviews
    • 1. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' The Evangelical Magazine (October 1795)
    • 2. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' Critical Review (October 1797)
    • 3. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Literary Journal (August 1806)
    • 4. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Edinburgh Review (July 1806)
    • 5. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' The Critical Review (August 1806)
    • 6. from anonymous, review of 'Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review (July 1809)
    • 7. from anonymous, 'On Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (October 1809)
  • B. Illustrations
    • 1. Title page, 'Tawney Rachel,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97)
    • 2. Title page, 'Servant Man Turned Soldier,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97)
    • 3. Valentine Green after John Opie, 'A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children' (1785)
    • 4. William Harvey, 'Ennui' [Frontispiece engraving], in Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, Volume 6 (1832)
  • C. Tales for Children
    • 1. Maria Edgeworth, 'Tarlton,' The Parent's Assistant (1796)
    • 2. Amelia Opie, 'The Little Boy and His Lame Dog,' Tales of the Pemberton Family (1825)
  • D. Educating Readers
    • 1. from Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798)
    • 2. from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View to the Principles and Conduct of Women of Rank and Fortune (1799; 1809)