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Ingram, Hon. Blanche:


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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guest at Mr Rochester’s house party, and the supposed object of his amorous attentions. See above for common criticism of her depiction by Charlotte Brontë. Her interest in Rochester springs almost entirely from her own growing maturity (she has been disappointed in marital speculations already) and her ideas of Rochester’s wealth. The supposed “fortune teller” considerably dampens her ardor and both she and her mother become cold towards him. The leaden sprightliness of her conversation is not convincing, and it may be that Charlotte Brontë betrays her ignorance of upper-class society in this caricatured picture, as Lord David Cecil suggests ( Early Victorian Novelists , Collins/Fontana reprint, 1964, pp. 96–7). ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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