The old manor house

Description:

In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable members, the dispossessed. --www.barnesandnoble.com.

subjects: Fiction,  Social classes in fiction,  Women landowners in fiction,  Manors in fiction,  Inheritance and succession in fiction,  Women landowners,  Inheritance and succession,  Social classes,  Manors,  Women household employees,  Women household employees in fiction,  Women domestics in fiction,  Women domestics,  Fiction, humorous, general,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)