Charlotte Dacre's The Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805) was a bestseller with two subsequent editions by 1807. It tells the story of the willful Cazire, a young woman who is most susceptible to romantic temptations. In this volume, Cazire is abandoned by her father and sent to be educated in a convent. Afterwards, she meets a gentleman named Fribourg, and their seductive conversations lay the groundwork for an bloody, destructive fate. This volume retains Dacre's stylistic excesses and eccentricities.
Charlotte Dacre's The Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805) was a bestseller with two subsequent editions by 1807. It tells the story of the willful Cazire, a young woman who is most susceptible to romantic temptations. In this volume, Cazire is abandoned by her father and sent to be educated in a convent. Afterwards, she meets a gentleman named Fribourg, and their seductive conversations lay the groundwork for an bloody, destructive fate. This volume retains Dacre's stylistic excesses and eccentricities.
