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General
- 9 Eliot tweaking lazy physiognomy description in saying that Celia looks more worldly-wise than D
Theme tracking
Reading/writing
Materiality
- 8 interesting (and useful for me) that the gendered question of idealism vs materialism is pitched in Dorothea as between books and fabric
She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in guimp [fabric trimmings] and artificial protrusions of drapery.
Shakespeare references
- 7 epigram to ch 1 from Beaumont and Fletcher, which she almost certainly knew from Dyce's eds
