Dec 26, 2009
The French Lieutenant’s Woman | The French Lieutenant’s Woman
At a glance:
- Author: John Fowles
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: 1867
- Setting: Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
- Principal Characters: Sarah Woodruff, Charles Smithson, Ernestina Freeman, Aunt Tranter, Mary, Sam, Mrs. Poulteney, Dr. Grogan, The Narrator
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory, Metafiction, Frame story
- Subjects: Freedom, Voyages, Tradition, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Imagination, Mysteries, Victorian era or Victorianism, Biology or biologists
- Locales: London, England, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
The Story:
Charles Smithson, a London gentleman on vacation in the South of
England, went for a walk with his fiancée Ernestina Freeman
on the sea ramparts in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast. They saw a
woman in a black coat and bonnet staring seaward from the very end
of the quay, who, when warned of the danger, turned and gave
Charles such a look of sadness that he never forgot it. He was
further fascinated when Ernestina told him the story of the woman,
Sarah Woodruff, who, it was rumored, had been seduced and abandoned
by a shipwrecked naval officer she had nursed back to...
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