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The kimeerlite occurrences from the vicinity of Rayton, South of premier mine, and from East Lynne, East of Pretoria
… Puntlyf fissure are south of Premier Mine. The East Lynne occurrence is just east of Pretoria. The mineralogy and petrography of the groundmass, cognate inclusions, and foreign inclusions are compared and six stages can be identified in the evolution of the kimberlites. Stage I represents the …
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Coming to Terms: Nineteenth -Century British Women Writers and Their Publishers
… as Mrs. Henry Wood, author of the bestselling East Lynne; although she is still best known for this, her first commercially published work, wood was also the author of nearly 40 works, as well as owner and editor of the popular monthly The Argosy. The publisher's reader who recommended East …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the nineteenth century and the influence the historical governess had on these works will be examined. The hypothesis that Braddon, Collins, Alcott, and Wood use the governess to depict …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… and raising children. Chapter three focuses on East Lynne, Ellen Wood's 1861 sensation novel of maternal excesses, arguing that the transgressive heroine's ""perversion"" of maternal love serves as a necessary vehicle for the consolidation of a uniform, patriarchal, middle-class identity …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… Wood’s Lady Isabel Vane turned Lady Carlyle in East Lynne. Chapter three, “The Villain: Feeling for the Enemy,” questions the easily defined femme fatale category of sensation novels and argues that Lady Audley’s actions in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret can be attributed to her …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… Causes Act 1857 in Ellen Price Wood's <em>East Lynne,</em> George Moore's <em>A Mummer's Wife,</em> and Thomas Hardy's <em>Jude the Obscure.</em></p>
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …