Description - Romance of Private Life by Sarah Harriet Burney
Burney's last novel, "The Romance of Private Life" (1839) contains two striking tales. Based on her travels on the continent, "The Renunciation" presents a colourful picture of life abroad. An English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine. "The Hermitage" is a gripping psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden and an unsolved murder. With shades of the Gothic, it offers a case-study of the after-effects of trauma, anticipating the genre of the detective novel and challenging prevailing critical assumptions of the patriarchal origins of the genre.
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