Heart-picking in A Simple Story

Title: Heart-picking in A Simple Story
Creator: Osland, Dianne
Relation: Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 16, Issue 1, p. 79-101
Relation: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~ecf/v16.html
Publisher: McMaster University / University of Toronto Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: The novel, A Simple Story consequently struggles with some intractable problems, though the problems are more generic than real since it is in the very intractability of her characters that the strength of Elizabeth Inchbald's narrative lies. By any standard other than the novelistic, nothing is surprising or even unusual about the way the story unfolds, except, perhaps, for the unsettling candor with which Inchbald recounts this simple, unvarnished tale of decent, intelligent people who do some stupid things for no good reason, who love unwisely, and who do not always learn from their mistakes.
Subject: 18th century fiction; Elizabeth Inchbald; A Simple Story; British literature; British authors
Identifier: uon:1635
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27402
Identifier: ISSN:0840-6286
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