Difference between revisions of "North and South (Gaskell, 1855)"

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*17 desc of M as "so far from regularly beautiful" makes her a sister of Bronte heroines
 
*17 desc of M as "so far from regularly beautiful" makes her a sister of Bronte heroines
 
*33 Mr Hale leaving Church ministry -- note v good
 
*33 Mr Hale leaving Church ministry -- note v good
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**39 Margaret seems justified in her perception of moving in a fortnight to be quite fast -- when the hell did anything in a Victorian novel happen that quickly?!
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 16:31, 6 September 2017

General

  • prefatory note interesting on her perceived constraint by serialized publication in Household Words and subsequent expansion in volume form
  • 17 desc of M as "so far from regularly beautiful" makes her a sister of Bronte heroines
  • 33 Mr Hale leaving Church ministry -- note v good
    • 39 Margaret seems justified in her perception of moving in a fortnight to be quite fast -- when the hell did anything in a Victorian novel happen that quickly?!

Theme Tracking

Reading/Writing

  • 20 "the well-bound little-read English Classics" in the Helstone parsonage library
  • 23 "proper old Italian binding" on an ed of Dante's paradiso
  • 34 Mr Hale quoting a 17c dissenter to justify leaving ministry

Shakespeare references

  • 5 compares Edith to Titania Midsummer Dream
  • 7 course of true love running smooth