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"It followed that Mrs. Cadwallader must decide on another match for Sir James, and having made up her mind that it was to be the younger Miss Brooke, there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia’s heart."
Dorothea would have been able to do everything she wished by way of social improvements if she had married Sir James. Discuss.
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Also, Sir James is a genuinely nice man and there's a lot to be said for those (see also, Richard Dalloway - much misunderstood).
When I retire I'm going to start a blog of all my heretical literary opinions so I can vent.
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Preview:
1. There is no jeopardy in Hardy's novels (you know his characters are inevitably going to make the wrong choices regardless of circumstances) so what's the point of reading them?
2. Every novel by Virginia Woolf is basically the same novel with the characters' names changed.
3. John Thornton is the most marriageable man in Victorian lit (he has an actual job! A man after my bourgeois heart). If we extend the criteria to 19th c. fiction I'd add Frederick Wentworth for the same reason.
Unfortunately I don't have a survey course.
Deanna Kreisel
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