Rebecca and Rowena

William Makepeace Thackeray

Rebecca and Rowena
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2002
Pages
112
ISBN
9781843910183

Rebecca and Rowena

William Makepeace Thackeray

A satire of Victorian admiration for all things medieval, this early work by Thackeray is decidedly contrary - a self-confessed ‘middle-aged novel’ that begins where most novels end: with marriage. Rebecca and Rowena calls into question the ending of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, exploring the miserable marriage of Sir Wilfrid to the ‘icy, faultless, prim’ Rowena. In an irreverent and theatrical plot, in which the dead come back to life, marriage is exposed as really quite dull, and imperialism is mocked mercilessly, Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel.

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