In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with her guardian, a Roman Catholic priest and aristocrat, and of their daughter Matilda who, banished from her father's ...

These characters' morals get loads higher, and the book indicates how both particular trends and awful behavior may have specific affects. "A Simple Story" is a big work within the lifestyle of 18th-century sentimental testimonies.

The critical introduction to this Broadview edition considers such issues as Catholicism, theatricality, the theatre, and the masquerade, while the appendices provide a wide selection of cultural, biographical, and literary contexts for the ...