Catherine Crowe

Broschiertes Buch

The Cruel Kindness

A Romantic Play, In Five Acts (1853)

Beschreibung

The Cruel Kindness is a romantic play written by Catherine Crowe and published in 1853. The play is divided into five acts and tells the story of a young woman named Edith who falls in love with a man named Walter. However, their love is threatened by the scheming of Walter's mother, Lady Vavasour, who wants her son to marry someone else for financial reasons.As the play progresses, Edith and Walter's relationship is put to the test, with Lady Vavasour doing everything in her power to keep them apart. Along the way, other characters are introduced, including a wise old woman named Mother Dorcas and a young man named Arthur, who is in love with Edith's friend, Lucy.The Cruel Kindness is a classic example of a romantic play from the Victorian era, with themes of love, betrayal, and class struggle. Crowe's writing is rich and descriptive, painting a vivid picture of the world in which the play is set. Overall, The Cruel Kindness is a timeless tale of love and the obstacles that must be overcome to achieve it.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

Catherine Ann Crowe was born Catherine Ann Stevens on 20 September 1790 in Borough Green, Kent, England, to unknown parents. She was educated at home and spent her early years in Kent before marrying Major John Crowe, with whom she had a son, John William Crowe. The marriage proved unhappy, and by the late 1830s she had separated from her husband and moved to Edinburgh. There, she became acquainted with notable literary figures such as Thomas de Quincey, Harriet Martineau, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Encouraged in her literary pursuits by Sydney Smith and others, Crowe established herself as a novelist and playwright. Her fiction often addressed the struggles of women in restrictive social circumstances, and she gained popularity with works like The Adventures of Susan Hopley and The Story of Lily Dawson. She later shifted her focus to supernatural phenomena, producing her most renowned work, The Night-side of Nature, in 1848. Despite periods of mental illness and a decline in popularity in later years, she continued to write, including children s books and adaptations. Crowe spent her final years in Folkestone, where she died on 14 June 1872. Her father s and mother s names remain unrecorded.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 122g
• ISBN-13: 9781120755049
• ISBN-10: 1120755042
• Artikelnr.: 28142790