Wise Virgin (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Romantic comedy
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: London, Cambridge, and Wiltshire
- Principal Characters: Giles Fox, Tibba Fox, Louise Agar, Meg Gore, Monty Gore, Piers Peverill, Mary Fox, Carol Fox, Mrs. Agar, Captain de Courcy
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Blindness or blind persons, Virginity or virgins, Religion, Writing, 1980’s, Libraries or librarians, England or English people, London
- Locales: London, England, Wiltshire, England, Cambridge, England
The Novel
Giles Fox is a librarian (keeper of manuscripts in a London museum) and medievalist who has spent the previous eighteen years editing A Tretis of Loue Heuenliche, an early thirteenth century tract on virginity. Giles’s only ambition is to have the work published by the Early English Text Society so that his scholarship can be admired by the handful of people capable of understanding its significance.
While working on the Tretis, Giles has married Mary, has fathered Tibba, has seen his marriage become a farce as his wife indulges in affair after...
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