Marriage (Summarized Edition)

Marriage (1818) is a spirited comedy of manners that anatomizes the delusions of the nuptial marketplace. Through the misalliance of spoiled Lady Juliana and the impecunious Highlander Henry Douglas, and the divergent fates of their daughters, Adelaide and Mary, Ferrier contrasts fashionable London vanity with Scottish domestic prudence. Her omniscient narrator, tart asides, and deft Scots idiom y...