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Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
The narrative revolves around the enchanting tale of Psyche and Cupid, reimagined within the context of 18th-century English society.
"Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a historical novel set in the early 19th century. The narrative revolves around the enchanting tale of Psyche and Cupid, reimagined within the context of 18th-century English society.
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If times differ, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is curiously like, and curiously unlike, our own sayings and doings.
The feelings of a retired officer of the nineteenth century expecting the return of his daughters from the first gaiety of the youngest darling, are probably not dissimilar to those of Major Delavie, in the earlier half of the seventeen hundreds, as he sat in the deep bay window of his bed-room; though he wore a green velvet nightcap; and his whole provision of mental food consisted of half a dozen worn numbers of the Tatler, and a Gazette a fortnight old. The chair on which he sat was elbowed, and made easy with cushions and pillows, but that on which his lame foot rested was stiff and angular. The cushion was exquisitely worked in chain-stich, as were the quilt and curtains of the great four-post bed, and the only carpeting consisted of three or four narrow strips of wool-work. The walls were plain plaster, white-washed, and wholly undecorated, except that the mantelpiece was carved with the hideous caryatides of the early Stewart days, and over it were suspended a long cavalry sabre, and the accompanying spurs and pistols; above them the miniature of an exquisitely lovely woman, with a white rose in her hair and a white favour on her breast.
Contents
- 01Preface to the Second Edition.
- 02Love and Life.
- 03Chapter I. A Syllabub Party.
- 04Chapter II. The House of Delavie.
- 05Chapter III. Among the Cowslips.
- 06Chapter IV. My Lady’s Missive.
- 07Chapter V. The Summons.
- 08Chapter VI. Disappointed Love.
- 09Chapter VII. All Alone.
- 10Chapter VIII. The Enchanted Castle.
- 11Chapter IX. The Triad.
- 12Chapter X. The Dark Chamber.
- 13Chapter XI. A Voice from the Grave.
- 14Chapter XII. The Shafts of Phoebe.
- 15Chapter XIII. The Flutter of His Wings.
- 16Chapter XIV. The Canon of Windsor.
- 17Chapter XV. The Queen of Beauty.
- 18Chapter XVI. Auguries.
- 19Chapter XVII. The Victim Demanded.
- 20Chapter XVIII. The Proposal.
- 21Chapter XIX. Wooing in the Dark.
- 22Chapter XX. The Muffled Bridegroom.
- 23Chapter XXI. The Sisters’ Meeting.
- 24Chapter XXII. A Fatal Spark.
- 25Chapter XXIII. Wrath and Desolation.
- 26Chapter XXIV. The Wanderer.
- 27Chapter XXV. Vanished.
- 28Chapter XXVI. The Traces.
- 29Chapter XXVII. Cytherea’s Bower.
- 30Chapter XXVIII. The Rout.
- 31Chapter XXIX. A Black Blondel.
- 32Chapter XXX. The First Task.
- 33Chapter XXXI. The Second Task.
- 34Chapter XXXII. Lions.
- 35Chapter XXXIII. The Cosmetic.
- 36Chapter XXXIV. Down the River.
- 37Chapter XXXV. The Return.
- 38Chapter XXXVI. Waking.
- 39Chapter XXXVII. Making the Best of It.
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 193 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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