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Barbara Stewart's avatar

I keep thinking that what would have suited Dorothea so much better than marriage to Casaubon or anybody else would have been to go to a top-rate liberal arts university, anytime from, say 1975 to now. She was hungry to learn, she was eager to study. Philosophy! Literature! Ethics! She was born in the wrong time.

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Amanda Ghest's avatar

Sorry, I commented on Ch. 8 earlier .. I thought 6-8 included 8. But I see it's 8, 9, and 10 for next time.

I would love to hear what others think is the quality of the humor in Middlemarch. I like these quotes from Mrs. Cadwallader:

"I set a bad example - married a poor clergyman, and made myself a pitiable object among the De Bracys - obliged to get my coals by stratagem, and pray to heaven for my salad oil."

and

"... what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself."

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