![]() ![]() ![]() After giving birth to their daughter Matilda, Lady Elmwood has an affair while Elmwood is in the West Indies she flees his household in shame and dies. Volumes three and four take place seventeen years later, with the couple’s happy ending thoroughly undone. ![]() Following their “various, though delicate struggles for power” (Inchbald 1791, 151), Elmwood and Miss Milner marry at the end of volume two. Meanwhile, Dorriforth inherits an earldom from a deceased cousin and becomes Lord Elmwood after receiving a papal dispensation freeing him from his vows. He tries to reform her rebellious ways and settle her in marriage, but she repeatedly challenges his authority. In volumes one and two, Miss Milner, a beautiful and quick-witted coquette, joins the household of her guardian Dorriforth, a Roman Catholic priest. A Simple Story (1791), a novel in four volumes, fuses the sentimental fiction of the earlier eighteenth century with the Gothic novel of the 1790s. ![]()
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