Knowing Dickens
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 149 passageways in Bleak House has engendered a range of critical readings so various as to suggest some in ...
150 KNOWING DICKENS good works mark him as the antithesis of self-advertising do-gooders like Mrs. Jellyby and Mrs. Pardiggle. B ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 151 Egg had proposed to her and been refused, whether because Georgy had decided to dedicate her life to he ...
152 KNOWING DICKENS and what a wonderful and truly womanly sympathy he had with them in all their childish joys and griefs,” wri ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 153 of antagonism. That we dare not do. Our resentment took another form, the more insidious form of deeply ...
154 KNOWING DICKENS her house on Stratton Street, and made a detailed recommendation: “The general compactness of this important ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 155 essay “Travelling Abroad” (AY R, 7 April 1860). Whether it was true or not, the story held a central sp ...
156 KNOWING DICKENS redug—they did not hit a spring for two months—or that the drains had to be redone, he put on some mock desp ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 157 there is no hope of renewal—or stability—anywhere in town. Arthur Clen- nam goes directly from his pris ...
158 KNOWING DICKENS and the demythologizing Great Expectations, Dickens had another plot to manage: the destruction of his marri ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 159 sexual relations? Catherine would have known and demurred when he crept out of bed in his restless anxi ...
160 KNOWING DICKENS signed—apparently from them both—“Bully and Meek” (3.291). Perhaps they were joking about the absoluteness o ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 161 it, or making the worst of it, any longer. It is all despairingly over. Have no lingering hope of, or f ...
162 KNOWING DICKENS His next move was to suggest that the separation was an acknowledgment of a long-standing situation: “We hav ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 163 Although Dickens invented a retrospective story about Catherine’s char- acter, the feelings that made t ...
164 KNOWING DICKENS control may not have presented themselves as possibilities, but we cannot know about that; perhaps he was ac ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 165 into a house at 2 Houghton Place near Mornington Crescent, purchased in the names of Frances and Maria ...
166 KNOWING DICKENS of characters stuck for a lifetime in houses that could barely contain the emotional tensions they were inte ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 167 had curled up, as if the damp air of the place had given them cramps” (CS 261–62). It is doubtless also ...
168 KNOWING DICKENS duties, and they agree to say nothing until Twelfth Night, when they will meet and tell stories set off by t ...
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