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The excursion

Written for the very audience it portrays, ""The Excursion"" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's ""gentle"" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure.
Print Book, English, ©1997
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©1997
xlix, 181 pages ; 24 cm
9780813108810, 9780813119793, 0813108810, 0813119790
1080856852
Reprint of 1785 ed. with new introduction