books.google.com - "Of all nineteenth-century English novels, " claims Edward Mendelson in his Introduction to this edition, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is the most self-consciously literary in its style and structure and the most sexually explicit in its plot and theme." First published in 1859,...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ordeal_of_Richard_Feverel.html?id=PL3szWIHnxMC&q=father&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel