In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.
Pamela HornMots clés marriage marriages-of-convenience victoriana victorians
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.
Jeffrey EugenidesMots clés reading books literary-criticism novels plot postmodernism narrative literary-theory semiotics victorians nineteenth-century
Tess Durbeyfield, in quell'epoca della sua vita, era solo un recipiente di emozioni non ancora colorite dall'esperienza
Thomas HardyMots clés romance-novels victorians
Sono gli stessi gradini dai quali Jane Austen fa cadere Louisa Musgrove in Persuasione." "Come è romantico." "Gli uomini erano romantici... allora.
John FowlesMots clés romance victorians
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
Anthony TrollopeMots clés nursing victorians
Desiderio, Odio, Vita, Morte erano terribilmente vicini nell'ombra
Jean RhysMots clés victorians
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