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Page 170
... women and of sex was concerned . For a novelist pur- porting to give a realistic representation of men and women in society , this was fatal . His was truly a crippled talent : for this the age cannot be blamed , though the effects of ...
... women and of sex was concerned . For a novelist pur- porting to give a realistic representation of men and women in society , this was fatal . His was truly a crippled talent : for this the age cannot be blamed , though the effects of ...
Page 194
... women leads him to be at any rate half un- faithful to the girl who loves him and with whom he has an under- standing . There are Phineas Finn in the novels of that name , Frank Greystock in The Eustace Diamonds , and Paul Montague in ...
... women leads him to be at any rate half un- faithful to the girl who loves him and with whom he has an under- standing . There are Phineas Finn in the novels of that name , Frank Greystock in The Eustace Diamonds , and Paul Montague in ...
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... women in fiction as Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse , George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth , and Meredith's Clara Middleton , and those names define her quality , her sense of the value of herself . But wherein is the ...
... women in fiction as Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse , George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth , and Meredith's Clara Middleton , and those names define her quality , her sense of the value of herself . But wherein is the ...
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