The Daughter of Adoption (1801) by Michael Scrivener (9781554810635)

Description - The Daughter of Adoption (1801) by Michael Scrivener

The Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging novel in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul.

Buy The Daughter of Adoption (1801) by Michael Scrivener from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.