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    The Detached House
    The Detached House
    The Detached House
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    The Detached House

    Written by Emily Eden

    Narrated by Peter Joyce

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    The house is called "Pleasance" and is rented by two sisters, Blanche and Aileen.

    The story revolves around the fortunes of two neighbouring families of varied social standing. The sisters' semi-detachment is to the Hopkinsons. Whilst Blanche's husband, Arthur, is abroad on a mission, the neighbours soon prove themselves invaluable as friends and Blanche and Mrs Hopkinson discover that their husbands are already acquainted!

    Emily Eden said of this work at the time of writing, that it was a "tolerably faithful representation of modern society" but when it was published 30 years later, she saw it as "a strange chronicle of the Olden Time." It remains, however, a sharp and witty cameo of polite society in nineteenth century England.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAssembled Stories
    Release dateMar 27, 2007
    ISBN9781860152573
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    Emily Eden

    Emily Eden (1797–1869) was an English author and poet. The daughter of a baron, she traveled to India as a young girl and later published a collection of letters from her time there. Her two novels, often favorably compared to the works of Jane Austen, are The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House.

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