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*103 "Indeed I believe all ghosts to be the result of damp." (Robert A)
 
*103 "Indeed I believe all ghosts to be the result of damp." (Robert A)
 
*109 Talboys' perceived sensitivity to the weather (by Robert), reminiscent of Lucy [[Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)|Villette]]
 
*109 Talboys' perceived sensitivity to the weather (by Robert), reminiscent of Lucy [[Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)|Villette]]
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*222 time an impt motif: the clock at Audley Court, train timetables, Clara Talboys says she thought she had to "trust to time", then Talboys' death described on 223 as "untimely"
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 16:39, 5 April 2017

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley's Secret. Pub. 1862. Ed. Natalie M. Houston. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003.

General Notes

  • 60 Talboys goes to Australia for the gold rush beginning in 1851, same that the characters rob a convoy for in Sherlock Holmes "Boscombe Valley Mystery"
  • 103 "Indeed I believe all ghosts to be the result of damp." (Robert A)
  • 109 Talboys' perceived sensitivity to the weather (by Robert), reminiscent of Lucy Villette
  • 222 time an impt motif: the clock at Audley Court, train timetables, Clara Talboys says she thought she had to "trust to time", then Talboys' death described on 223 as "untimely"

Theme Tracking

Reading/Writing

Materiality

Technology

Shakespeare references

  • 179 describing the locksmith "there was nothing that he need have been ashamed of in his face, except the dirt, and that, as Hamlet'smother says, "is common""
  • 211 Talboys' father reminds RA of John Philip kemble