Hi Cassia & all, Did I miss something? When is our DD read scheduled to start? Sharon...
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Apr 23, 2000 4:41 pm
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I would like to know your opinions by getting your answers to this survey. Thank you in advance for your survey participation and feedback.> Go to:...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Apr 27, 2000 3:02 am
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After long delay Date.....Month.......Chapters 09.......May..............1-4 16.......May.............5-10 23.......May............11-14 ...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Apr 30, 2000 8:51 pm
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Daniel Deronda-ward of Sir Hugo Mallinger. Educated at Cambride, he believes he is related to Sir Hugo, goes in search of his parents when he finds that he is...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Apr 30, 2000 10:07 pm
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I'll try to get the synopsis up by Tuesday, so get reading everyone. Cassia ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Apr 30, 2000 10:08 pm
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I managed to skip over 1 August on the schedule. Here's the amendment. 01 August.....54-57 08 August....58-62 15 August....63-66 22 August....67-70 29...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Apr 30, 2000 11:04 pm
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Synopsis Daniel Deronda Book I The Spoiled Child Chapter 1 Daniel Deronda spots Gwendolen Harleth at the gaming talbles at Leubronn, a German spa. He finds...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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May 5, 2000 1:10 am
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From the first line of the novel we know Gwendolen is an object. As Daniel watches her at the gaming tables he wonders whether she is beautiful or not we are...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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May 9, 2000 5:00 am
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Hi Cassia & all, "A thousand meadows & cornfields are staked at every throw, and as many villages lost as in the earthquake that overwhelmed Herculaneum &...
sonicnyc@...
May 11, 2000 2:08 am
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Sharon, I read about half of Georgiana (did you know the BBC filmed the bio? it should air next autumn) so while I don't know the extent of her gambling I do...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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May 15, 2000 4:10 pm
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... Hi Cassia, Did you get to the part where he exiles her to the continent to have Grey's baby? The cheek, all things considered. I'd read an essay that...
sonicnyc@...
May 15, 2000 11:19 pm
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Not that it matters, because she was a fine novelist in any case. But lately I've come across at least two websites that say she is: ...
Yael Nussbaum
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May 17, 2000 5:01 pm
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... Oh Yael! Don't be forlorn! The discussions can always use another voice regardless of how far along you are. Its usually just me & Cassia. I'd love it...
sonicnyc@...
May 17, 2000 9:51 pm
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... Yael, I can neither confirm or deny that MAE was a lesbian. But I find it an interesting thread. Since she did have a more or less conventional ...
sonicnyc@...
May 17, 2000 10:19 pm
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Yael, Hello and thank you for your interesting contribution. Personally I don;t think that we can call anyone pre-Freudian homosexual or lesbian unless they ...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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May 23, 2000 4:44 pm
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Sharon, I'm deeper into the Georgian bio and I can see strong parallels between the duchess and GE. They are both emotionally needy and easily frustrated by ...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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May 23, 2000 4:55 pm
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... Hi Cassia, As I approach the end of the bio, I'm satisfied with knowing that Geo. was able to find some degree of political forfullment. Not like she...
sonicnyc@...
May 24, 2000 1:14 am
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First of all I'd like to apologise for not putting the chapter summaries as I've usually done--I simply haven't had time to think much less type in the last...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 1, 2000 4:37 pm
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Gwendolen seems a bit of a monster in the early chapters of the books. She thinks only of herself, what she wants from any situation and never gives even a...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 1, 2000 4:44 pm
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GE seems to respect ambition and fear it. She brings toghether these strains in her handling of Gwendolen. Gwendolen must be supreme in all things, witness...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 1, 2000 4:52 pm
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DD seems a much more distant novel to me when compared with the others. It begins excitingly enough with Daniel spotting Gwendolen gambling and his returning...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 1, 2000 5:03 pm
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Chapter 11 Grand court isn't at all what Gwendolen expected: he isn't self conscious in her presence, he isn't tall and he's bald. Still he is handsome with...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 5, 2000 7:33 am
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Chapter 15 Which brings us back to the beginning of the story. Grandcourt had come looking for Gwendolen in his leisurely manner. He doesn't set out after...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 5, 2000 8:00 am
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Book III Maiden Choosing Chapter 19 Meeting Mirah and hearing her yearning for her lost mother inspires Daniel to learn more of his own mother. He thinks of...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 6, 2000 2:34 am
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I don't think that I'm giving anything away if say Gwendolen will marry Grandcourt and it will be horrible. We've seen this situation before in MIDDLEMARCH...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 6, 2000 3:05 am
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Does Daniel remind anyone else of Will Ladislaw? They are both young men searching for something, they don't quite know what when we first meet them. They are...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 6, 2000 3:15 am
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Catherine Arrowpoint seems underdeveloped to me. GE uses her character to make a strong point, marrying where one wishes as opposed to marry where one can,...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 7, 2000 4:52 pm
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Chapter 24 Gwendolen is left without hope after her interview with Kelsmer and decides to face any mortifications the future chooses to lay at her door with...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 12, 2000 5:32 am
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I wonder if the reason Gwendolen seems worse than Rosamund is because Gwendolen is younger, closer to that font of self involvement so many adolescents are...
Cassia Van Arsdale
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Jun 17, 2000 5:38 am
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Hi everyone, Are we still reading Daniel Deronda? I have posted very little to the Eliot list, but I have been with you in all of the reads. Prior to joining...
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