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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born , 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary , Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…

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Scottish Women Writers on the WebSusan Ferrier — Scottish Women Writers on the WebSusan Ferrier wrote satirical novels of manners, which have been compared to the works of Jane Austen and Frances Burney. She mixed with Romantic Edinburgh's Edinburgh’s literary luminaries, including Henry Mackenzie and Walter Scott, but her failing eyesight confined her at home from the 1830s unt
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“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…”

—Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE looks at what happens when notions of the Scottish meet cold, damp reality…


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asls.org.ukAnnual Volume 47 (2017) – Association for Scottish Literature
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We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian version of 1842. Read the first chapter free online here:


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There’s no talking to a young woman now about marriage, but she is all in a blaze about hearts, and darts, and—and—But heark ye, child, I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth—that is, for the aggrandizement of her family, the extending of their political influence—for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage. And pray what has your heart to say to that?”
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“the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English”

Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in MARRIAGE
—Benjamine Toussaint, Scottish Literary Review 8/1, 2016 – on Open Access via Project MUSE

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Abstract Writing at a time when the National Tale was both a flourishing genre and a label frequently used as subtitle, Susan Ferrier might seem to have chosen to focus her attention on domesticity rather than on national issues when she entitled her first work Marriage: A Novel. However, Ferrier does not content herself with analysing gender relationships, she also portrays Anglo-Scottish relationships, a century after the Act of Union. This paper aims to analyse the parallels she establishes between conjugal and political unions, as well as the extent to which her own gender may have affected her political views and her ways of expressing them.
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“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

An 1893 article in The Atlantic Magazine, contrasting the careers of Susan Ferrier & Jane Austen

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The Atlantic · Miss Austen and Miss FerrierBy Charles Townsend Copeland
Sep 07, 2023, 12:07 PM·Public·Web
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“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures, and the stereotypes within human nature that both divide and unite the two. It is also very funny”

—The Books & Borrowing 1750–1830 Project on Susan Ferrier’s second novel, THE INHERITANCE

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borrowing.stir.ac.ukBooks and Borrowing 1750-1830 :: Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)
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