Caroline of Lichtfield: by Isabelle de Montolieu

Caroline of Lichtfield

by Isabelle de Montolieu

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Edited by Laura Kirkley, Newcastle University

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440278

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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Thomas Holcroft’s 1786 translation of Isabelle de Montolieu’s novel is a textual encounter between a rather conventional Swiss woman and a British radical. Caroline of Lichtfield is a sentimental novel which tells the story of a young woman who comes to realize that the young and handsome man she has fallen for is less worthy of her affections than her older, less dashing husband. The book was a hugely influential international bestseller and garnered high praise from writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël and Maria Edgeworth. Jane Austen was also an admirer, and the book's influence can be seen in both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. A prolific and respected translator herself, Montolieu brought Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion to a French-speaking audience. Just as Montolieu did in her own translations, Holcroft reworked parts of the novel to make it more appealing to his intended audience.

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Caroline of Lichtfield

by Isabelle de Montolieu

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

CONTENTS
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp xi-xxii

Select Bibliography
pp xxiii-xxvi

Chronology
pp xxvii-xxx

Note on the Text
pp xxxi-xxxii

Caroline of Lichtfield

Volume I
pp 1-78

Volume II
pp 79-158

Volume III
pp 159-234

Appendix I
pp 235-236

Appendix II
pp 237-238

Appendix III
pp 239-240

Appendix IV
pp 241-246

Editorial Notes
pp 247-260

Silent Corrections
pp 261-262

Textual Variants
pp 263-270

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