The Portrait of a Lady
Isabel Archer, a young American with more curiosity than money, is brought to England by an aunt and then left an unexpected fortune. Free to choose anything, she refuses two suitors and settles on an expatriate dilettante in Florence, encouraged by an older woman who has taken her up. An heiress choosing freely walks into the most refined of traps; freedom studied as tragedy.
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- influenced by ↑ Daniel Deronda
- influenced by ↑ Middlemarch
- influenced by ↑ Fathers and Sons
- ↓ The House of Mirth
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