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Page 57
... attitude . Jane Austen would not dream of being , in a novel , so minute and specific as , for example , Richardson is about Clarissa's clothes . - - Being good to the poor is not an exclusively feminine activity . Mr Darcy , according ...
... attitude . Jane Austen would not dream of being , in a novel , so minute and specific as , for example , Richardson is about Clarissa's clothes . - - Being good to the poor is not an exclusively feminine activity . Mr Darcy , according ...
Page 97
... attitude to Paulina is in general so ambivalent that one hardly knows how to take these ref- erences . Her attitude to Mrs Bretton is complex , too , but surely there is resentment , justifiably , in Lucy's comment about this incident ...
... attitude to Paulina is in general so ambivalent that one hardly knows how to take these ref- erences . Her attitude to Mrs Bretton is complex , too , but surely there is resentment , justifiably , in Lucy's comment about this incident ...
Page 160
... attitude . When the lessons actually begin her recalcitrance con- tinues . ' My fingers is stiff , ' pleaded Sylvia , holding up her little hand and shaking it . ' Let us take a turn at spelling , then , ' said Philip . ' What's t'use ...
... attitude . When the lessons actually begin her recalcitrance con- tinues . ' My fingers is stiff , ' pleaded Sylvia , holding up her little hand and shaking it . ' Let us take a turn at spelling , then , ' said Philip . ' What's t'use ...
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Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen ... Patricia Beer Limited preview - 1974 |
Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen ... Patricia Beer No preview available - 2014 |
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