Delphine (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Louise Germaine Necker
- First Published: 1802
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Epistolary
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: France
- Genres: Long fiction, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Suicide, Marriage, Eighteenth century, Widows or widowers, Duels or dueling, Nuns, Libel or slander
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
Delphine d’Albemar (dehl- FEEN dahl-beh-MAHR), the tragic heroine of this sentimental epistolary novel. Intellectually and financially independent upon her widowhood at twenty, she gives away part of her fortune to enable Matilda de Vernon, the daughter of a friend, to marry an unseen Spanish nobleman. When Delphine herself falls in love with the young nobleman, she is maligned and deceived by Matilda’s mother in order that the proposed marriage may take place. Always virtuous but never an adherent to convention, Delphine constantly finds her reputation...
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