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Secresy

Eliza Fenwick

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Secresy | Eliza Fenwick
3.69
85 ratings
Book Overview: 

This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few secrets. Yet secrets cannot remain hidden for ever, and everything has a price. This is both a social novel and a gothic novel. A true page turner with all the elements of a good 18th century novel: a woman locked in an estate, a hidden pregnancy, some politics of marriage, villains, sentimentality and thought provoking philosophy.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .It is, alas, no novelty for some people to be inconsistent, and for others to imagine that rank and riches, as it places them beyond the reach of the common misfortunes of life, gives them full privilege to censure the weak and contemn the unfortunate. I hope benevolence is not a novelty. I would not subtract from the due praise of any individual; but I feel it as it were a tacit reproach upon human nature, or rather upon human manners, when we loudly vaunt the benevolent actions of any single man. I love the man, be he whom he may, who will perform the offices of a brother to the weakest, the most despised of his fellow creatures; but I lament that the example should be so unusual; and, when seen, rather vaunted than valued; and speedily forgotten.

I have no reason to accuse myself of a want of penetration. Our morning was any thing but pleasant. The air from the water chilled Sir Thomas. Lady Barlowe could find no scope amidst the very small talk for one single. . . Read More

Community Reviews

5.00
- Meredith - May 20, 2019

4.5, really because it ends in sentimental novel fashion with the dissident lovers dying. Also, the 'focaliser' (it's epistolary, but she is kind of the POV) doesn't get a resolution at all. Of course, some of this is Fenwick working within what is imaginable in the novel at the time, but I've seen

5.00
- Lawrence - Sep 26, 2018

I'm so glad I finally got around to reading this one! I feel like I've been seeing it mentioned in interesting articles all the time since undergrad. It is definitely an interesting one, worth unpacking. I was pleasantly surprised by Caroline; her love for Sibella is compelling, deep, and enduring,

3.00
- n* - Jul 07, 2009

One of the best books I've ever stolen from my coffee shop job. Fair enough; I didn't really steal very many, but this one was just sitting around for months! The author, Eliza Fenwick, was a contemporary of Mary Shelley's; she's almost unknown to those outside the "obscure 18th century women writer

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