Frank Frankfort Moore

Broschiertes Buch

The Jessamy Bride (1896)

Beschreibung

The Jessamy Bride is a novel written by Frank Frankfort Moore in 1896. The book is set in the late 18th century and tells the story of a young woman named Jessamy who is forced into a marriage with a man she does not love. The novel explores themes of love, duty, and the constraints of society on women during this time period. Jessamy is torn between her duty to her family and her desire for true love, and the novel follows her journey as she navigates these conflicting emotions. Along the way, she meets a handsome stranger who seems to understand her better than anyone else, and the two begin a forbidden romance. The Jessamy Bride is a classic tale of love and sacrifice, and a poignant commentary on the societal expectations placed on women in the 18th century.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

Frank Frankfort Moore (1855-1931) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a unionist and a Protestant from Belfast, yet his historical fiction during the Home Rule agitation did not shy away from themes of Irish-Catholic dispossession. Moore was born in Limerick but raised in Belfast, where he recalls seeing dragoons, sabres drawn, rushing sectarian riots in the street below his nursery window as his earliest recollection. Moore's father was a successful clockmaker and goldsmith, and the family was well-educated (French and German were both spoken). The elder Moore, however, as a member of the ultra-puritan Open Brethren group, wanted to limit his children's reading to religious and didactic publications. Michael Paget Baxter, the evangelist who recognized Emperor Napoleon III as the Beast in the Book of Revelation, was a frequent visitor. Moore attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he swiftly learned to reject his father's ideas. He remembered the spread of certain slanderous lyrics titled "Mr. Baxter and The Beast," which "proved" that Baxter himself was the Antichrist. Moore praised Irish scientist John Tyndall's statement of scientific materialism at a British Science Association conference in Belfast in 1874, mocking the angry reaction of local Presbyterian ministers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781437327328
• ISBN-10: 143732732X
• Artikelnr.: 25862676