Armadale (Collins, 1866)

• 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
• 190 the town's sniffiness about Armadale's arrival is at least in part one between time scheme's: Allen's busy penny post modernity vs the formal slowness of town life welcoming the squire as of old
• 200-1 Allen exposes a nice vein of country petit bourgeois snobbery
• 206-8 Letters between the Milroys indicating that Lydia is inbound as governess and from Brock spying on Gwilt and Overshaw