A spirited young woman's path to marrying the man she loves is tangled by debts, misunderstandings, and her own impulsive heart.
Books mentioned in Camilla (6)
The Seasons by James Thomson: “She stole softly round to look over the shoulder of the reader, and her respect for his raptures increased, when she saw they were raised by Thomson's Seasons.”
Eclogues by Virgil: “A circumstance in the scenery before him now struck Dr. Orkborne with some resemblance to a verse in one of Virgil's Eclogues, which he thought might be happily applied to illustrate a passage in his own work;”
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden: “He's every thing by turns, and nothing long. [Footnote 3: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.]”
Othello by William Shakespeare: “The play was Othello; and so miserably represented, that Lavinia would willingly have retired after the first scene:”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “And Amelia was fain to content herself with the habit of the first witch in Macbeth.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Camilla recollected her own'almost blunted purpose,' and fearfully asked if their Mother were yet at Belfont. [Footnote 6: Hamlet]”
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”