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Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy, a novel by C. Reade , published 1866.

The novel, set in the 18th cent., is based on a story by Wilkie Collins . It was unusually frank for its time and Reade was prosecuted in a case in which Dickens (‘as a husband and father’) refused to help defend him. Reade's interest lay clearly not only in the theme of jealousy, both male and female, but in the sexual nature of the heroine Kate, an ardent young woman who is attracted to one suitor, marries another (Griffith Gaunt), and then falls in love with her spiritual director, unleashing a trail of ...

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