Armadale (Collins, 1866)
From Commonplace Book
- 155-169 "Lurking Mischief" chapter uses the technology of the penny post (from 1839 according to sutherland) to keep the plotting between Lydia and Mrs Oldershaw moving fast
- 169-70 description of Thorpe-Ambrose as specifically unromantic and not at all gothic (modern, in fact) - AA thinks it will calm Midwinter's nerves
- 169 he mentions midwinter writing to Brock - the narrative interplay between fragments (letters) and diegesis
- 178 Maj Milroy talks about the risks of advertising for a governess -- the other end of the problem of Jane Eyre (1848) advertising
- 183 the respectable middle class library: Waverly, Maria Edgeworth, Felicia Hemans