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--> There are few women, we suppose, who have not seen something of children under five years of age, yet in “Compensation,” “Literature/{{Compensation}},” a recent novel of the mind-and-millinery species, which calls itself a “story of real life,” we have a child of four and a half years old talking in this Ossianic fashion:
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* BoldInflation: Occurs a lot in {{Author Tract}}s in the form of italics and lowercase notes, which invariably fails to actually clarify the meaning of these tracts.
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* InformedAbility: Particularly her intellect. Eliot does praise one author for realizing this and keeping it off-screen, which makes the dialog much more readable than that of authors who try to write their heroines as smarter than themselves.
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* InformedAbility: Particularly her intellect. Eliot does praise one author for realizing this and keeping it off-screen, which makes the dialog much more readable than that of authors who try to write their heroines as smarter than themselves.
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* StarvingArtist: Invoked as if and subverted; the essay claims, ironically, that the romantic notion that lady novelists are poor but determined women writing to make a living is subverted by many female writers belonging to the upper crust settings. idle rich. Later, dealing with a specific author, she observes that the dialog dialogue she writes shows her to be lower middle class.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Eliot expresses worry that people will take bad novels as proof that women as a whole are too dumb to be worth educating, since all it's it has apparently done for the authors is give them DelusionsOfEloquence.
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actually) and tropes used by George Eliot:
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* DeathbedConfession When discussing the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel, where the heroine marries the WrongGuyFirst:
* DeathbedConfession When discussing the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel, where the heroine marries the WrongGuyFirst:
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* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Literature/AdonijahATaleOfTheJewishDispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
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* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Literature/AdonijahATaleOfTheJewishDispersion,", ''Literature/AdonijahATaleOfTheJewishDispersion'', the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
Jews'."
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** When discussing the typical heroine of the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel:
--> She is the ideal woman in feelings, faculties, and flounces
** In the first sentence:
--> Silly Novels by Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic.
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DancesAndBalls: How some heroines, who dance "like a sylph" of the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel, meet their men:
--> They see her at a ball, and they are dazzled
*DeathbedConfessionDeathbedConfession When discussing the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel, where the heroine marries the WrongGuyFirst:
--> The vicious baronet is sure to be killed in a duel, and the tedious husband dies in his bed requesting his wife, as a particular favor to him, to marry the man she loves best, and having already dispatched a note to the lover informing him of the comfortable arrangement.
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* DuelToTheDeathDuelToTheDeath: How the "vicious baronet" usually dies in the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel:
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--> The vicious baronet is sure to be killed in a duel, and the tedious husband dies in his bed requesting his wife, as a particular favor to him, to marry the man she loves best, and having already dispatched a note to the lover informing him of the comfortable arrangement.
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* RagsToRoyaltyRagsToRoyalty: When discussing a common heroine of the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel:
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--> Or it may be that the heroine is not an heiress—that rank and wealth are the only things in which she is deficient; but she infallibly gets into high society, she has the triumph of refusing many matches and securing the best, and she wears some family jewels or other as a sort of crown of righteousness at the end.
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--> For all this she as often as not marries the wrong person to begin with, and she suffers terribly from the plots and intrigues of the vicious baronet; but even death has a soft place in his heart for such a paragon, and remedies all mistakes for her just at the right moment.
--> For all this she as often as not marries the wrong person to begin with, and she suffers terribly from the plots and intrigues of the vicious baronet; but even death has a soft place in his heart for such a paragon, and remedies all mistakes for her just at the right moment.
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That is actually a novel, so wicking it. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49663
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* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
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* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion,", "Literature/AdonijahATaleOfTheJewishDispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
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'Cause otherwise, it sounded like it was discussing another novel.
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* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion," Dispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
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* MostWritersAreAdults: Eliot takes a moment to skewer a story that includes a four-and-a-half year old child talking in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
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---> “‘Oh, I am so happy, dear grand mamma;—I have seen—I have seen such a delightful person; he is like everything beautiful—like the smell of sweet flowers, and the view from Ben Lemond;—or no, better than that—he is like what I think of and see when I am very, very happy; and he is really like mamma, too, when she sings; and his forehead is like that distant sea,’ she continued, pointing to the blue Mediterranean; ‘there seems no end—no end; or like the clusters of stars I like best to look at on a warm fine night. . . . Don’t look so . . . your forehead is like Loch Lomond, when the wind is blowing and the sun is gone in; I like the sunshine best when the lake is smooth. . . . So now—I like it better than ever . . . It is more beautiful still from the dark cloud that has gone over it, when the sun suddenly lights up all the colors of the forests and shining purple rocks, and it is all reflected in the waters below.’”
--> We are not surprised to learn that the mother of this infant phenomenon, who exhibits symptoms so alarmingly like those of adolescence repressed by gin, is herself a phœnix. We are assured, again and again, that she had a remarkably original in mind, that she was a genius, and “conscious of her originality,” and she was fortunate enough to have a lover who was also a genius and a man of “most original mind.”
--> There are few women, we suppose, who have not seen something of children under five years of age, yet in “Compensation,” a recent novel of the mind-and-millinery species, which calls itself a “story of real life,” we have a child of four and a half years old talking in this Ossianic fashion:
---> “‘Oh, I am so happy, dear grand mamma;—I have seen—I have seen such a delightful person; he is like everything beautiful—like the smell of sweet flowers, and the view from Ben Lemond;—or no, better than that—he is like what I think of and see when I am very, very happy; and he is really like mamma, too, when she sings; and his forehead is like that distant sea,’ she continued, pointing to the blue Mediterranean; ‘there seems no end—no end; or like the clusters of stars I like best to look at on a warm fine night. . . . Don’t look so . . . your forehead is like Loch Lomond, when the wind is blowing and the sun is gone in; I like the sunshine best when the lake is smooth. . . . So now—I like it better than ever . . . It is more beautiful still from the dark cloud that has gone over it, when the sun suddenly lights up all the colors of the forests and shining purple rocks, and it is all reflected in the waters below.’”
--> We are not surprised to learn that the mother of this infant phenomenon, who exhibits symptoms so alarmingly like those of adolescence repressed by gin, is herself a phœnix. We are assured, again and again, that she had a remarkably original in mind, that she was a genius, and “conscious of her originality,” and she was fortunate enough to have a lover who was also a genius and a man of “most original mind.”
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