The Way We Live Now (Trollope, 1875)
From Commonplace Book
General Notes
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
- 11: "He [Booker] was quite adept at this sort of work, and knee well how to review such a book as Lady Carbury's Criminal Queens, without bestowing much trouble on the reading. He could almost do it without cutting the book, so that it's value of after sale might not be injured."
- 22 Hetta Carbury's face was a "true index" to her character: could you trace the link between indexical/informational forms of literature and understanding character? Has anyone?
Shakespeare References
- 7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare"
