Vanity and Willie clash over secrets in Upside Farm reunion
In a tense Hampton tale, Willie confronts Vanity Hardware about a hidden shame and a past romance. Vanity refuses to reveal her secret as social pressures mount. a later scandal about burglary and murder swivels the plot toward a final confrontation. The chapter ends with Vanity guiding a detective and preparing to reveal more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Vanity
Verity
Lavige
Abe
Tharesay
Phe
Will
Uge
Nancy Steele
Miss Vanity Hardware
Eerybody
Nancy
Vilage
Lsten
Burnham
Hampton
Girange Mann
Pernonnga
Vantaare
Handenine Goff
Ciel
Ron
Tie
Gracious
Hardwares
Tumbledown Farm
Stithvon
Noble motive or murder in Charlotte Corday tale
The passage cites Charlotte Corday's act against Marat as a noble motive to save France, recounting her beheading and the reaction of revolutionary leaders, along with a contemporaneous note on colonial architecture by Ralph Adams Cram in The Quarterly Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Cordray
Charlotte Corday
Armans
Abe
Marat
Bannot
France
Ararat
Lyons
Maraeilier
Faria
Igritiany
Calvados
Denton
Camille Denmonling
Robespiare
Lis Valeta
Charlotte
the Quarterly Review
Cupil's Scrap Hook Likely Became Marriage Companionship Theme
Fragmentary text indicates discussion of relationship dynamics among women and men after marriage. References a bride and husband and social gatherings among visitors. Context suggests a narrative about companionship and domestic expectations in a community setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervilla Journal
Though Love Be Slain Poem Fragment Madame
Poem fragment laments love's end and memory's persistence. The speaker insists on keeping a withered rose and the memory of joy, addressing a Madame with lines about oblivion and remembered tunes. The text mixes lyric metaphor and a formal address.
Guinea madness haunts a gunboat voyage story
Dr Macpherson recalls a voyage off the coast of Guinea aboard the Dragon Fly. Engineer Lashton seeks to sabotage his rival Lieutenant Gilby through a staged prank and a poisoned ink bottle. Gilby fears Guinea madness a hereditary disease and shows symptoms as the ink marks spread.
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Dr. Macpherson
Guinea
Davy
Mediterranean
Bay of Lagos
Kakoga
Lashton
Lieut
Gilby
Miss Callan
Malta
Ufe
Himeself
Lughten
Macpherson
Kakorn
Tieutenand
Knowling
Engineer Lashton
Opee
Laghton
Laashton
Atill
CY Gm
Cilby
Sterest
Connec
Eeis
Smd
Dhay
Guines
Pall Mall
Generations of Authors and Critics in Spin of Theater
English reviewers name Herbert Spencer James Bryce and others as possible authors of Regen eration in a flurry of literary speculation. Stephen Crane reveals Maggie a Girl of the Streets was self published. Clinton Scollard resigns Hamilton College post to write. epic on the American Indian planned. Conan Doyle nears London journal work startling readers. Cable explains Madame Delphine response to a quadroon request. Hubbard releases The Journal of Koh leth with Beclualastes essay. Times sues Central News for allegedly fake Japanese war dispatches. The Se late dex Gene du Lettres contracts with advertising agents funds authors' penance. Boner recounts Kipling's early years and a harsh critique of Jude the Obscure targets. The London Chronicle defends itself against Robert Buchanan and condemns his letter. Critic reviews Mrs Gertrude Atherton's A Whirl Asunder as Californian romantic drama amid Bohemian Club backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Crane
Maggie
Clinton Scollard
Hamilton College
Dr. Conan Doyle
London
Conan Doyle
George W. Cable
Baudeoma
Elbert Hubbard
Philistine
Borcroft
Aurora
Journal of Kohleth
London Times
Central News Company
Central News
Times
Kipling
Dim
Birla
Geerat
Tore
Rina Chee-Ches
London Chronicle
Mir
Robert Buchanan
Viexe
Eglurons
Mushanan
Jude the Obscure
Buchanan
Not Worth a Rush Origins of a Common Saying
An article explains the phrase not worth a rush, tracing it to medieval rooms laid with rushes on the floor. It notes that high status hosts used fresh rushes while lower status guests endured used, decaying rushes.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chaptha XI
Miss Hardware
Mise Barnitt
Hardware
Ralph Adams Cram
Ladies’ Yiome Journal
Cram
Huiider
England
Cupil
Herbert Spencer
James Bryce
Max Nordau
Gertrude Atherton
A. Whirl Asundcer
Arabella
Jude
Redwoods
Bohemian Club
San Francisco
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