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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], it being that kind of book).

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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], important later -- it being that kind of book).

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* SecretDiary: Diaries figure prominently in this. Roland reads Crabb Robinson's to see what he said about the dinner party where Christabel and Randolph met. At Lincoln University Maud gives him Blanche's, initially a celebration of creative collaboration and happiness but descending into anxiety, anger, paranoia, and an abrupt stop. Ellen's is provided by her curator Beatrice Nest, who believes Ellen was not oblivious to what was going on and sees her as deliberately leaving hints to "baffle" future readers, foreseeing future vultures picking over Randolph's stuff and hers. Christabel's Breton cousin Sabine de Kercoz kept one, initially to improve her writing so she could become a poet herself, but it ended up as a record of Christabel's pregnancy.



* KindHeartedCatLover: Roland, at the very end. The [[CrazyCatLady landlady's 17 cats]] (never allowed outside) have saturated Roland and Val's basement apartment in cat box odor. She's taken to hospital and the cats escape, whereupon Roland feeds them and arranges for their welfare.

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* KindHeartedCatLover: Roland, at the very end. The [[CrazyCatLady landlady's 17 cats]] (never allowed outside) have saturated Roland and Val's basement apartment in cat box odor. She's injured in a fall and taken to hospital and the cats escape, whereupon Roland feeds them and arranges for their welfare.



* ObfuscatingStupidity: While it's widely considered that Ellen Ash was a regularly dull Victorian housewife, Beatrice Nest becomes convinced that she was far more shrewd that expected and wrote her diary with the intention to baffle its readers.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: While it's widely considered that Ellen Ash was a regularly dull Victorian housewife, Beatrice Nest becomes convinced that she was far more shrewd that than expected and wrote her diary with the intention to baffle its readers.



* ShowWithinAShow: The poetry of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel [=LaMotte=].

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* ShowWithinAShow: The poetry of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel [=LaMotte=]. And one chapter is devoted to their secret tryst from Randolph's point of view.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], it being that kind of book).
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* {{Diary}}: The diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crabb_Robinson a real person]], a journalist, attorney and diarist/memoirist), Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover and Sabine de Kercoz are nested within the novel
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* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: Maud is Christabel's great-great-great-grand-niece.]]

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* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: Maud is Christabel's great-great-great-grand-niece.great-great-great-grand-daughter.]]

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