THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
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Structure- straight narrative
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Genre - postmodern historical fiction novel
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Setting- Lyme Regis, Dorset
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Era – the mid-nineteenth century
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Mood-pessimistic
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Theme – social class, freedom, love and sex, feminism, science
and religion, metafiction, historiography and metahistory
CHARACTERS
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Sarah Woodruff-the main protagonist according to the
narrator, she is a woman of about 25 years old, an ambitious
farmer`s daughter with areasonable education which has left
her stranded between two classes: the lower class which she
was born, and the middle class, to which her education pishe
her but cannot bring her entirely, since she lacks both
breedning and money
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Charles Smithson- is thirt-two years old and and the member
of upper class, the main male character
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Ernestina Freeman-Smithson's fiancée, a meber of the rich
class but her ancestors were not aristocrat
