[Gutenberg 31879] • Coelebs In Search of a Wife
- Authors
- More, Hannah
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Inc
- Tags
- feminism , mate selection -- fiction , conduct of life -- fiction , classics , didactic fiction , christian fiction
- ISBN
- 9781551116747
- Date
- 1809-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
In this, Hannah More’s only novel and an early nineteenth-century best-seller, More gives voice to a wealthy twenty-three-year-old bachelor, who styles himself “Coelebs” (unmarried), but seeks a wife. After the death of his father, Coelebs journeys from the north of England to London, where he encounters a fashionable array of eager mothers and daughters before he visits the Hampshire home of his father’s friend, Mr. Stanley. Lucilla Stanley, Mr. Stanley’s daughter, is both an intellectual and a domestic woman, and Coelebs’ ideal partner. In this intelligent novel about the meeting of two minds, More shows the ways in which a couple becomes truly “matched” as opposed to merely “joined.”
Along with a critical introduction, this Broadview edition includes a wide selection of historical documents, from reviews, imitations, and sequels of Coelebs in Search of a Wife to related contemporary writings on conduct, courtship, and women’s education.