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Page 178
... women in society , this was fatal . His was truly a crippled talent : for this the age cannot be blamed , though the effects of his psychological lameness chimed with the sentiment of the age . In Thackeray's novels women are either ...
... women in society , this was fatal . His was truly a crippled talent : for this the age cannot be blamed , though the effects of his psychological lameness chimed with the sentiment of the age . In Thackeray's novels women are either ...
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... 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 Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ; his range of women characters is considerably greater than that of his men . But he distinguishes very carefully between women . He writes in Born in Exile : ' Godwin was one of those upon ...
... women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ; his range of women characters is considerably greater than that of his men . But he distinguishes very carefully between women . He writes in Born in Exile : ' Godwin was one of those upon ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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