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“Their conversation turned upon those subjects...between two young ladies: such as dress, balls, flirtations, and quizzes” (Kindle 313).

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“I never saw you look more lovely in your life than in that same new dress of yours” (Pamela, Kindle 954). Dress as euphemism for the body.

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“What a plague, said he, for that was his word, do you mean then by this dress?” (Pamela, Kindle 867). #meaningofclothes

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“It was a shame for her, being his wife, not to show more duty" 36. #misogyny #genderroles #maritalexpectations

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"To be sure, it must have been hard for her to guess what sort of husband he reckoned to make her" 32. #alternateincome

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"We none of us ever saw or heard her speak for seven years after that" 29. Unquestioned imprisonment consistent with misogynistic views.

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"I had never seen any of that tribe or nation before, and could only gather that she spoke a strange kind of English of her own" 26 #Thady

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"he was going to be married in a fortnight to the grandest heiress in England" 23. Marriage as an alternative career path. Gender roles flip

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"these suits that he carried cost him a power of money" 16 #litigious #consequences #powerstructures

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"I always suspected she had Scotch blood in her veins, any thing else I could have looked over in her from a regard to the family" 13 #other

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"It's a long time ago, there's no saying how it was, but this is for certain" 12 #unreliablenarrator #Thady

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"My real name is Thady Quirk, though in the family I have always been known by no other than 'honest Thady'" 7 #nomenclature

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"how contemptible a Thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I" 96 #humanhubris

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"I might be a piece of Clock-work...contrived by some ingenious artist" 93 #mechanismsandmachines #otherness

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"through a magnifying Glass...the smoothest and whitest Skins look rough and course, and ill coloured" 83. The other within ourselves.

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"our Philosophers are in much Doubt; and would rather conjecture that you dropt from the Moon, or one of the Stars" 42

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"His Features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian Lip, and arched Nose, his Complexion olive” 25 #standardsofbeauty #stereotype

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“—we’ll not stop two moments, my dear Sir, --only as we have got thro’ these five volumes" 329 #reflection #TristramShandy

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"But somebody stole my letter, and I know not what is become of it" 22 #unreliablenarrative #censorship

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"Things don't disgrace Men, that ruin poor Women, as the World goes" 41. #genderroles #powerstructure #socioeconomicstatus