Susan Ferrier wrote Scottish novels of manners that use courtship, family conflict and social embarrassment to satirise class and character. Marriage contrasts fashionable English expectations with Scottish households after a reckless elopement, following the next generation through questions of upbringing and compatibility. The Inheritance centres on an heiress whose position depends on disputed family history and whose social choices expose vanity, manipulation and romantic self-deception. Destiny broadens into another family story shaped by inheritance, status and competing ideas of responsibility. Ferrier's prose is lively, ironic and strongly interested in conversation, with comic secondary characters often carrying the sharpest social observation. Her work fits early nineteenth-century Scottish fiction, women's writing and novels of manners, especially for readers of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth. Read more Less
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