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

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* prefatory note interesting on her perceived constraint by serialized publication in Household Words and subsequent expansion in volume form
 
* 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
 
*17 desc of M as "so far from regularly beautiful" makes her a sister of Bronte heroines
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*33 Mr Hale leaving Church ministry -- note v good
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 17:23, 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

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

Shakespeare references

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