Amelia Opie’s prose fiction, or as she termed it “simple moral tales”, engaged with many of the political discourses of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, notably touching upon those “concerned with women’s education and rights in marriage” (Hill, 2015: 748). In Adeline Mowbray the core of the novel is constructed precisely upon the contrasting ideology of the “pure” and the “fallen” woman, yet due to philosophical as well as social reasons she neither upholds nor openly attacks such theories. Nevertheless, her secluded attachment for revolutionary ideas, which favored social renovation as well as free love, materialize in Adeline Mowbray becoming thus a way of doing it public without seeming to do so. The real
