Once again I mis-spelled. I meant this for Saturday. Cassia **There is a rgreat deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 1, 1999 11:03 pm
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Of all the young women we've met in Middlemarch Mary Garth seems the easiest to sympathise with. She has nome of the 'womanly airs' Rosamund uses to...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 1, 1999 11:29 pm
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Fred's easy going manner may make his sermonising all the more bearable, bu the cannot be called upon to heal the soul--it would be like calling in a plumber...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 1, 1999 11:33 pm
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The one problems with this novels is that the seeds for the themes are planted early but don't come to fruition until the end. George Eliot masters the...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 1, 1999 11:41 pm
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Jealousy is anotehr important part of the novel. Ned Plymdale and many of the other Middlemarch doctors are jealous of Lydgate either for having caught...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 3, 1999 12:18 am
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Since the read has been going for ove a month now, I thought it time to solicit your feedback. Is the pace too fast or slow? Is there anything I can add or...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 3, 1999 12:25 am
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It's just occured to me what lies at teh root of Edward Casaubon's jealousy of Will Ladislaw and vice Versa: they both have tremendously large egos. They are...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 3, 1999 9:01 pm
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Chapter 37 Back to the Reform Bill. Here's the deal: George IV is dead and William IV is on the throne. There is a general cry for reform throughout the ...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 4, 1999 10:49 pm
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Please remember to post your feedback. ______________________________________________________ Get your free web-based email at http://www.xoom.com SPECIAL...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 4, 1999 10:50 pm
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Cassia and other gentle readers, I am a 1st time reader for MM although I had attempted before... I must thank you for sparking my interest and making the...
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Mar 7, 1999 12:30 am
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Cassia, Pace is ok. Thank you for your efforts re the summaries and reading schedule. I really don't have any criticisms although this read of Eliot is...
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Mar 7, 1999 9:33 am
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Cassia Sorry I am unable to respond very often but I am pleased with the pace, the summaries and ideas you have about themes and characters. Wanda...
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Mar 7, 1999 8:28 pm
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The shift from the old to the new is a subtle strain running through all of MM. As I've written before there is intergenerational tense displayed by nearly...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 8, 1999 10:07 pm
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I found this in a book of Marian Evan's letters: to M. D'Albert "I have turned out to be an artist - not as you are, with the pencil and the palette, but with...
Marion Hall
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Mar 8, 1999 10:51 pm
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I wonder if GE rushes the wedding in the because she hadn't had one herself at this point. Cassia --If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at ...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 10, 1999 12:01 am
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Cassia, I can't think of any books of this period which go into detail about weddings - have I missed something or is it just that we have made them the ...
Marion Hall
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Mar 10, 1999 9:28 pm
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Money plays a larger role in MM than in neary any other Eliot novel. The people with it use it as weapon against those who do not, Peter Featherstone is the...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 10, 1999 9:54 pm
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Cassia **There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.** DANIEL...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 10, 1999 9:57 pm
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Book Five The Dead Hand Remember there are at least two characters who have dead hands in this novel. In many ways this is the most important book of the...
CassiaVanArsdale@...
Mar 11, 1999 11:21 pm
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Why does Mr Vincy see so ready to write off his two eldest children? Not wanting to throw good money after bad with Fred I can comprehend a bit, after all it...
CassiaVanArsdale@...
Mar 11, 1999 11:34 pm
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C S Lewis didn't like Will Ladislaw. Niether did Kingley Amis. I believe it was Lewis who called him a candystick. Both of them ask why would a good and...
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Mar 11, 1999 11:46 pm
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It isn't only her looks that make Rosy the perfect late Regency girl; she also has the perfect education. She executes well at the piano and can sing...
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Mar 11, 1999 11:58 pm
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It's easy to see both Dorothea and and Rosamund are young beautiful women with a measure of inteligence. Another thing they share is they turn themselves into...
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Mar 12, 1999 12:07 am
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But didn't the dowry money in those days go towards the children from a marriage ?...
Heather Mackie
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Mar 12, 1999 2:59 am
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Cassia, I thought that Vincy was in financial difficulties? His business is in trouble, so, in a sense he sets Fred and Rosamond a bad example by living beyond...
Marion Hall
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Mar 12, 1999 6:02 pm
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Dowries traditonally did go into the pocket of the husband but since the mid 1750's marriage settlement were being arranged to go to the children with the wife...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 13, 1999 8:04 pm
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Marion- I was joking, paraphrasing Mrs Elton from Emma.t o be exact. Cassia ______________________________________________________ Get your free web-based...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 13, 1999 8:33 pm
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Cassia, sorry! Must have left my brain in the supermarket Marion...
Marion Hall
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Mar 14, 1999 10:19 am
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Feedback is still appreciated. Anyone who doesn't want to respond publically may email me privately. Resemblence I love this novel and GE (ME if you prefer)...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Mar 15, 1999 11:05 pm
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Cassia, Are all the male characters in Middlemarch weak, except Casaubon and he is a physically wreck? Dorothea escapes this man who could have kept her in...
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