[Gutenberg 35638] • Leonora
![[Gutenberg 35638] • Leonora](/cover/19eFRkYIiZvwtWAq/big/[Gutenberg%2035638]%20%e2%80%a2%20Leonora.jpg)
- Authors
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Publisher
- Evergreen Review, Inc.
- Tags
- romance , women -- conduct of life -- fiction , women -- social and moral questions -- fiction , england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction , classics
- Date
- 1806-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.31 MB
- Lang
- en
Leonora is an epistolary novel originally published in 1806. The plot of the novel centers on the newly-married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France. The woman, Olivia, is known as a "coquette," and her controversial behavior with regard to her marriage had driven her to France, where she cultivated an aristocratic, "French" sensibility that exists apart from conventional (English)morality.