Self-Control
by Mary Brunton
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Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a fan, she read it at least twice, worrying that the work might foreshadow her own creations.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Self-Control
- Original title
- Self-Control
- Original publication date
- 1811
- Epigraph
- His warfare is within.—There unfatigued
His fervent spirit labours.—There he fights,
And there obtains fresh triumphs o'er himself,
And never-withering wreaths, compared with which
The laurels that a Caesar re... (show all)aps are weeds
---Cowper - First words
- It was on a still evening in June, that Laura Montreville left her father's cottage, in the little village of Glenalbert, to begin a solitary ramble.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The joys that spring from chastened affection, tempered desires, useful employment, and devout meditation, must be felt---they cannot be described.
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