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How fared it with Isabel? Just as it might be expected to fare, and does fare, when a highprincipled gentlewoman falls from her pedestal. Never had she experienced a moments calm, or peace, of happiness, since the fatal night of quitting her home. . .remorse, a never-dying anguish, took possession of her soul for ever. (Chapter 29) Such addresses to the reader appear frequently in the novel and in Wood's work more generally. In East Lynne they seem suggestive of Wood's sincere belief in middle-class women's responsibilities as wives and mothers. Isabel Vane becomes a "fallen" woman who has no place in polite society. She is duly punished by having her beauty and

Author

Dona M. Cady

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030783174

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction