As Adelia took a walk in the garden‚ she could not help but notice that her brother had his mind wrapped around something. She had to discover what was going on with him before she lost herself in a paroxysm of anxiety. There was no telling who the woman was that had him gallivanting around town instead of staying put and attending to the affairs of their household. The Ainsworth family had a long course of royalty decorating their path and it would serve them quite the injustice if Larkin destroyed
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Hercule Poirot‚ private detective and retired Belgian police officer‚ boards the Taurus Express train to Stamboul (Istanbul). On the train there are two other passengers‚ Mary Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot. The two act as if they are strangers‚ but Poirot observes behavior that suggests that they are not. Poirot is suspicious of the couple. The train arrives in Stamboul and Poirot checks in at the Tokatlian Hotel. As soon as Poirot arrives he receives a telegram summoning him back to London. While
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Emma by Jane Austen Journal entry 1 The beginning of ’Emma’ is set in a small imaginary country village called Highbury‚ in around 1814 and the mood is playful and happy. The main characters in this scene are Emma Woodhouse the persona‚ Mr Woodhouse‚ Ms Taylor and Mr Knightly. Emma Woodhouse is described as ’Handsome‚ clever‚ and rich’ and happy because she ’had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’ The writer portrays how she is used to having
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Women writers use their personal lives as stimulus when writing works of fiction. As seen in the classic author Charlotte Brontë and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and also for the contemporary author Kathy Reichs. While Jane Eyre is a novel telling the life story of its title character‚ it is mostly based upon aspects of Brontë’s life. Kathy Reich’s uses her life and personally traits to develop the main character and her life in her novels as well. There are a few reasons why women use this technique
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In the novel by Charlotte Bronte‚ "Jane Eyre"‚ there is a constant battle of love versus autonomy in Jane‚ the main character. At points Jane feels as if she would give anything to be loved. Yet over the course of the book Jane needs to learn how to gain affection of others without sacrificing something in return. In the early stages of Jane’s life she was a very autonomous girl. She grew up in a hostile environment in the home of Mrs. Reed and her three children‚ John‚ Eliza‚ and Georgiana that
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typhus swept in and TB took Helen away from Jane. After the head teacher Mr. Brocklehurst is replaced. Jane’s life improves and greatly growing up to finish school and working there as a teacher for two years. She soon gets offered a job as a governess at manor in the countryside called Thornfield and takes the job‚ teaching a lively French student called Adele. But Jane wakes up one nigh to laughing and enters Mr. Rochester’s room before saving him from a great fire around his bed‚ which she claims
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Grafton NSW. Jessie was the eldest of three children of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston‚ civil servant‚ and his wife Mabel Harriet‚ sixth daughter of Edward David Stewart Ogilvie of Yulgilbar station. Jessie began her formal education with a governess. In 1904-06 she attended Wycombe Abbey School‚ Buckinghamshire‚ England. She matriculated by private study and enrolled in arts at the University of Sydney (B.A.‚ 1911)‚ where she lived at Women’s College (1908) and also met her future husband.
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During the Victorian Era women were limited to child bearing and housewife. They were identified in four classes; Nobility‚ Middle class‚ Upper working class‚ and lower working class. They were expected to remain in their class and any change from one class to another was a serious offense. Within all of the classes women were expected to live a highly restricted life with their life centered on their husband and children. Women in the Nobility class lived a life of luxury. They spent their time
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feels alone at boarding school with no source of comfort. Jane soon befriends another student‚ Helen Burns and finds comfort in her but she soon dies of tuberculosis. Jane is alone and alienated once again. Jane chooses to follow the occupation of a governess‚
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to establish a school in Newington Green‚ London. It was there that Mary wrote her first piece of writing‚ Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct‚ in the More Important Duties of Life. Soon after‚ she became a governess in the family of Lord Kingsborough‚ and spent most of her time in Ireland. After being dismissed from there in 1787‚ Mary traveled back to London‚ and became driven to earn a living from a literary career. She began her work as a literary advisor
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