Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph

Author: Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13:

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Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph is a journal by Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan. Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright. Excerpt: "Mrs Catharine Sidney Bidulph, was the daughter of Sir Robert Bidulph of Wiltshire. Her father died when she was very young; and of ten children none survived him but this lady, and his eldest son, afterwards Sir George Bidulph. The family estate was not very considerable; and Miss Bidulph's portion was but four thousand pounds; a fortune however at that time but quite contemptible: it was in the beginning of queen Ann's reign. Lady Bidulph was a woman of plain sense, but exemplary piety; the strictness of her notions (highly commendable in themselves) now and then gave a tincture of severity to her actions, though she was ever esteemed a truly good woman."

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph

Author: Frances Sheridan

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-08-13

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3752428910

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Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph by Frances Sheridan

The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Author: Frances Sheridan

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1551113430

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The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked upon; Samuel Johnson wrote to Frances Sheridan, “I know not, Madam! that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.” Sheridan traces Sidney Bidulph’s development in a complex epistolary novel spanning much of the protagonist’s life, and explores the tension between sexual desire and prescribed female conduct. In addition to an introduction that places the novel in the context of Sheridan’s feminism and of the early novel, this edition provides material on discourses of female conduct, letters between Sheridan and Samuel Richardson, and contemporary reviews.

Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Author: Frances Sheridan

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2013-09-23

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1554810264

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In 1761, Frances Sheridan published her novel The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, which became a popular and widely praised example of the sentimental novel. The Conclusion, that novel’s sequel, is set eight years later, after Sidney Bidulph’s marriage and motherhood. Psychologically subtle and emotionally immediate, the novel is told almost entirely in the form of letters. Many of the letters are between the scheming Sophy and Edward Audley, who are trying to trick Sidney’s daughter into marriage with Edward; these letters provide a startlingly realistic portrayal of villainy, anticipating such later works as Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The historical appendices include documents on the education of young adults in the eighteenth century and contemporary reviews of the novel.