The delicate distress
Elizabeth Griffith, Cynthia Booth Ricciardi (Editor), Susan Staves (Editor)
The Delicate Distress (1769) focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage - the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past
Print Book, English, ©1997
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ©1997
Fictional Work
xxxiii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
9780813120140, 9780813109251, 0813120144, 0813109256
36074458
Previously published in 1769 as part of a set of Two novels, the second, The gordian knot, written by her husband, Richard Griffith"--Prel. page