The Missionary

by Sydney Owenson Morgan and Lady Morgan

Book Overview

Sydney, Lady Morgan (1781 - 1859), was an Irish novelist, best known as the author of The Wild Irish Girl. She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a fashion adopted with signal success by Thomas Moore. Her novel St. Clair (1804), about ill-judged marriage, ill-starred love and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511810122
• ISBN13: 9781511810128
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

wacky erotic colonial tale

This book is so insanely over-the-top that I think it has been written off, but I highly recommend it. I think it was much better than Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and much more radical (in some ways) than its counterpart. An Oriental tale set in India with a Portuguese missionary and a Hindu woman-goddess, it doesn't get any better than that! Owenson's convoluted plot could be critiqued from a literary standpoint, but I think its value as a mirror of confused cultural and political values more than makes up for it.