Diane, We should be beginning Daniel Deronda (DD) in mid-March. We'll be picking up in The Last Victorian on Tuesday, 04 Jan 2000. Cassia ...
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There are disadvantages when a holiday fall on a weekend: PBS is re-broadcasting TMOTF as part of the Masterpiece Theatre series. Unfortunately since New...
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We've read five chapters thus far and we there are many patterns that MAE tends to repeat: preferring male company to female, seeming endless loyalty to...
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Jan 10, 2000 2:53 am
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This is a chapter full of changes. Robert Evans becomes even more demanding of MAE as he grows more and more ill. Where previously she had time for ...
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On page 81 Hughes states tells us MAE began to look closely at the marriages that surrounded her: Chrissey's, the Brays, Fanny's, Isaac's. Apparently she ...
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Both men Hughes writes about in this chapter see to be odd birds: Chapman needed high drama and lots of sex to keep himself going while Spencer was afraid of...
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I haven't been able to post my comments for the last couple of weeks due to a problems with my ISP. I will begin posting again on Tuesday. Sorry . Cassia ...
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In a message dated 1/30/00 11:47:57 PM !!!First Boot!!!, CassiaVanArsdale@... writes: << I haven't been able to post my comments for the last couple...
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Salon.com is having a discussion of The Mill on the Floss this month. Might want to check it out. If you spot anyone interesting perhaps drop a line about...
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In a message dated 1/31/00 1:35:45 AM !!!First Boot!!!, cassia_v@... writes: << Salon.com is having a discussion of The Mill on the Floss this month....
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Hi Cassia & Shriber, Salon is one of my favorite sites, its a big place though. Went to Books didn't see any mention of MotF discussion. Can you be a bit...
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In a message dated 1/31/00 3:35:28 PM !!!First Boot!!!, SONICNYC@... writes: << Hi Cassia & Shriber, Salon is one of my favorite sites, its a big place...
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I always feel sorry for MAE's sister Chrissey. She's seems like one of those people who can never manage to get a break and was incapable of coping as well....
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I read a book about mistresses, written by a woman who often played that role herself. I was going to get the title of it for you but the library catalogue ...
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The first page of this chapter is most revealing. After writing her famous essay 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' MAE began to consider the nature of the...
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Hi Cassia & All, Its been pretty quiet around here... Is anyone reading the bio? Has anyone checked out the MotF discussion in Salon? Go to Table Talk for a...
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Sharon, I'm still soldiering away at the biography. I'm surprised that no one else is posting since reading a biography was suggested by so many people. And it...
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... Hi Cassia, Abysmally easy is an understatement. For kicks my brother & I watched briefly. We spent the entire show shouting answers at the tv. The ...
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Sharon, I'm not surprised at MAE allowing GHL to edit her work. In the mistress book I wrote about the author wrote that the one advantage mistresses have...
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I wonder what kinds of conflicts muct have gone through John Blackwood's head when it became known that MAE was GEorge Eliot? As Hughes says he was a ...
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Reading this chapter made my head reel at the thought of all of the money GE was receiving for her writing. I have friends who freelance and write fiction on...
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I hae always been concerned about the isolation MAE's relationship with GHL caused. She bascially threw off teh friendship f her young womanhood. Some behaved...
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... Hi Cassia, Interesting points. I'd have to agree with you about GHL enveloping MAE. Although not that well versed in a poets Byron & Coleridge come to...
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Sharon, I think you are correct: the tendency to specialise does place us into boxes. I went out with a man a few years ago, a physicist, who was shocked that...
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GHL and MAE's decision not to have any children of their own seems logical, after all, he not only had the support of his own children with his wife Agnes to...
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Hi Cassia, On e of the things I find, found most irritating about Eliot was the end of the heroines. Women who are educated & self possessed come to an end of...
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I can't remember when or where I read this, but I think I parphrase A S Byatt when she contrasted GE and Jane Austen: GE never allows her heoines their ...
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Mar 7, 2000 4:24 am
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We're almost Through with TLV and will move on to Daniel Deronda immediately afterwards, so start looking for a copy or reading ahead whichever suits. DD is...
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Did nayone likethe idea of reading s play together? ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape...
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... HI Cassia, I want to be the saucy parlour maid. Sharon D....
