Jane Blakeley

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

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[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Though inside, there's a great deal of femininity. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Wearing pants?! How scandalous, Ms Dixon! @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Self portrait as a "New" Woman. Francis (Franny) Benjamin Thompson. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

"Theory is dead (despite what #JohnBarton may think)" -Dr. Phegley @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Gissing is a transition between the Victorian and the Modern novel. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

100£/year bare minimum, 200-300£/year struggling, 300£/year doing ok. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

12 pence=1 shilling
20 shillings=1£ @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Milvain--the shrewd optimist 🤑@Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Wait to get married until you can make (or your potential husband can make) 300£ a year. Better call Suze Orman! 🙌💷💷💷 🙌@Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Gissing's view of the author's life--The only way you can write quality is if you're already wealthy. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

What is the purpose of an epigraph? A wink and nod to the learned? preface, counterexample, summary, foreshadowing? @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Clever Woman is high lit b/c characters change, downplays sensationalism (super subtlety), & demonstrates gravitas w/epigraphs @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

@Eng5555D Oh, and she's in debt

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Ermine = Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Who is Bessie? Captivating, gold-digging, cheater, whose fancy (& flirting) is her undoing--death by croquet. @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Changing the connotations of clever women; perhaps little Una can carry the phrase proudly @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

How does she know [she can't get pregnant]? It's not like [Ermine] was whoring around? @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

Images from the first issue of The Churchman's Family Magazine @Eng5555D

[Jane Blakeley @victorianprint]

J. Tompkins-We should study sentimental plots to understand the issues of the time (children dying allowed catharsis) @Eng5555D