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The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, novel by John Fowles, published in 1969. A pastiche of a historical romance, it juxtaposes the ethos of the Victorian characters living in 1867 with the ironic commentary of the author writing in 1967. The plot centres on Charles Smithson, an amateur Victorian.
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In Chapter one we are plunged into the sea air of Lyme Regis on a stormy day. It is 1867. Sarah Woodruff, nicknamed “Tragedy,” or “The French Lieutenant’s Whxxx,” gazes out to sea. She is almost universally despised, but Charles Smithson, out walking with his fiancée, pauses, and wonders.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman. John Fowles. Little, Brown, 1998 - Fiction - 467 pages. While in Lyme Regis to visit his fiancee, Ernestina Freeman, Charles Smithson, a 32-year-old...
Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian...
Brief Biography of John Fowles. Fowles was born into a conventional family of middle-class tobacco importers. At thirteen, he began attending boarding school, where he was successful in athletic pursuits. After spending two years in the Royal Marines, Fowles earned his bachelor’s degree at New College, Oxford, in French and German.
The French Lieutenant's Woman. John Fowles. New American Library, 1981 - Fiction - 366 pages. The clash of social systems and ethical standards of Victorian England are epitomized in the love...
