‘The Wealth of Worlds’ : gender, race, and property in The Woman of Colour — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable)

• Main Author: Sinanan, Kerry
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148552
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Towards the end of The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield declines to entertain the idea of an offer of marriage from Charles Honeywood. Olivia’s first marriage to Au-gustus Merton has been annulled upon the discovery that his first wife, Angelina, whom he was told was dead, is in fact still alive, a...