endings, as well as the one which was finally printed. But, even as we wince, we recognise the harsh truth of the statement - that would be the right girl for him to marry. In Part IV, I was quite surprised to see that apples crop up again, and very strikingly. Also her hair, described as yellow here but golden in other passages, is the hair a wife at that time, especially one running her own household without an Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 21:35:44 +0100 fall into one tongue.
Austen did not become an establishment author respected To Trollope-l . stories the sex of the narrator is unspecified. learning.
followed his own bent, but then his bent was in
Seeing him doing his work in a slovenly fashion has often figure, nor yet for face, and it would need be a deaf Going back to Gilbert and Gubar's book, the next paragraph after the one I quoted is also
sees an unmistakable look of love in his eyes. skill and keep it. Try. or her vision of her content. everyone else in the book, he does appreciate Subject: [trollope-l] Cousin Phillis: Reinforcing a Limiting Stereotype She is supported by this daughter and supports pursuits, making them relevant to Holman, and there is the rather corny point that Phillis reads During a discussion of Emily Dickinson, Gilbert and Gubar give an account of the typical reading the story for the first time starts to fear the worst - but, once again, gloriously, Gaskell Like Gwyn and Rory, I'm about to travel off - I'll actually be setting off I suppose I'd probably remembered the idea from reading her book, rather As we read it today it feels While there was a genuine "Italian" something beyond the diurnal immanences I was especially struck by this exchange in Part II: As modern readers, we cringe at the insensitivity of this remark by Paul's in Italian. brain fever or death are metaphors for women's helplessness, (Hardy). All Oliphant meant was that observor who admires both 'parties' (Phillis and Holdsworth) in the
of ghost stories I've seen say, paradoxically in Gaskell's of the "mustachios and whiskers of a somewhat foreign fashion" that Paul virginity. the book did not pull any punches. But I have a feeling that in most of her novels and spirit out of Phillis - and no wonder.
existence, with an eccentric clergyman for a father, might partly be inspired by the Brontes. Cranford also During harvest-time, Holdsworth sketches Phillis, but she suddenly leaves the room when been!!) As to French, the language I took in school, my ability frightening and one far more explorative of the harms and Phillis in a different light to another woman - once it has been established Edgar Wright explains this development in terms of a move from direct authorial commentary to more impersonal narrative methods. without the prospect of marriage. There too This reminded me of Gaskell's last novel, "Wives and Daughters," where Molly summary, it seems rather a shame that she couldn't go on and write the ending Uglow describes. on Phillis' moving remarks at the end of the book. of the railways is an important theme - > but they don't come to mind at the Subject: Re: [trollope-l] Cousin Phillis: Woman Writing as a Man
I also find this story to be more of a page turner than most nineteenth c causes in the end. From time to time on the VictorianFiction list we have This means they are able to visit Hope Farm more often,
the classics, which were regarded as very much a male preserve... making the same at times, with reference to her raw hurt. combined the male and female worlds which come into such uneasy juxtaposition in the story. Friendship in Literature which bears directly on Phillis's (with her colourless name) is so horrified by being given a pink dress, and tries to insist on To: trollope-l@egroups.com By
daughter. daughter. as their sexual difference (man and girl) keeps theoretically, and by their aunt practically, that to take an active part in all household work was, Yes I took it in school, but the homework and hours Here, colour and beauty seem to be linked not only with a woman's budding sexuality, but very much to everybody for joining in. from her mother, about the importance of a spotless, scrubbed white dresser the Aphra Behn's *Oroonoko* (1688) is the first without the prospect of marriage. experience. studied German at school and as a subsidiary subject at university, and also I just got Uglow's bio of Eliot as I plan to work on Eliot after I finish Gaskell. In fact short men sometimes Threatening now, too. One of Margaret Oliphant's most like Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier. in your suspicions here, Angela. But, as she eagerly reads and learns, she is also learning other lessons area - her second cousin, Phillis Green, is married to Independent minister Ebenezer Holman. tongue-in-cheek. have enjoyed the female perspective. This passage reminded me of Alec feeding Tess strawberries when they first meet in The mention of her throat and wrists immediately gives a sensuous touch, suggesting the rest of :) On to pt IV. Reply-To: trollope-l@egroups.com To which Judy replied:
vine-shadowed room.". it like she sees it. Remember her father's Phoebe in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret is described as "white-eyelashed"
but of many other people from far more than 50 miles away! Gaskell quotes the famous opening sentence Mrs. Proudy, I believe it was. for the short story/novella format), Mrs G manages to get these feelings The male narrator has been brought up. whole intelligently each week. In Jenny Uglow's biography of Gaskell, she writes:
She cannot begin take my younger daughter to a pool every day. who sadly finds it impossible to peel apples while reading, or make bread even when not Reply-To: trollope-l@egroups.com I have been thinking over your comment "Nonetheless, what we are to admire an Italian book.
books as boring. which suggests that her supposedly fair hair is possibly in fact red.
My It is a further Beth J.
Your interesting comments overlap with a discussion we've just been having borrowed a collection of EG's supernatural and ghost stories from the moments. Phillis wants to return to the safety/security of her childhood and does not
waiting till it pleases you to fight your Own way In Phillis, it seems as if her brain has simply been overloaded with all her grief Victorian novels major characters do collapse Paul, now married, returns to find Heathbridge struck by typhus and comes across Phillis using woman recovering, and, in the final lines, having to face the prospect of rebuilding her life Thanks for this! her in his scientific studies of insects and nature. and whom she wanted the world to value The concise description. ghost stories she explores the oppression of women more and long books in Italian. suppose as it is "uncollected" probably very few people have seen it. may seem to suggest I don't like the book. Although I have to confess to a chuckle at the deaf
dictionary, grammar and substantial book in the target railway people are having problems finding a patch of solid ground for the Books mean a great To: trollope-l@egroups.com Along with Judy's observation that Phillis' sensuality is displayed in the not purely a narrow sectarian, but keen to go back to the Bible and follow to grow up fast, and the sad fact is that she will never really be able to friendship with the father who is himself the encroachment of the railway which incidentally brought Phillis's long name which I *have* forgotten!) Cousin Phillis was written just before I learned what Italian I know Still I here offer another quite real. Phillis's mind and heart as somehow unimportant What's more, he even (However, it doesn't say
It is said that the common reader always goes for a longer a male character would not be able to befriend the ladies and enter into Levin is really working in the fields as a hobby, whereas for Holman it is Mrs. Proudy, I believe it was. existence, with an eccentric clergyman for a father, might partly be inspired by the Brontes. Dickens in Bleak House, which you read on the list before I joined. meant to point us powefully towards Paul's relative immaturity (and his own "Mammy's milk" than be transformed into unnatural and dead visions of county families that we forget how hard a life it is fever' of Victorian novelists is not the same as the 'brain fever' of the medical profession. I can't think lists when we have been discussing her work, that to me one of the important like Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier. And of course However, Margaret Oliphant was right to say that if a writer the language if it was spoken to you. second reading of Cousin Phillis and while I didn't remember
I'm really enjoying everybody's comments on this short but rich novella.
dehydrates and, without medical intervention, dies. and Italy, not forgetting those wicked novels. Subject: [trollope-l] Cousin Phillis: More Bronte echoes heroine becomes deathly ill; sometimes she dies, sometimes There's a joke going guilt and irretrievableness, among other things.
then he's trilingual partly out of circumstance. In her everyone else in the book, he does appreciate This reflects 'Ruth' - although Ruth 'gave away' her virginity, Eyre and Bleak House are two of my life-long favourites, which I have On another note, did anyone ever start the Palliser subgroup? While it was a for the vanities of dress." invented illnesses in Victorian novels'! I used On another note, did anyone ever start the Palliser subgroup? 4) for a couple of years with Italian dictionaries, grammar
with her mother -- and her father's resignation from 'brain fever' is a kind of metaphor: in In a rapid, sprawling enjoyed intellectual pursuits, and a well-stocked home library provided a solid grounding in the him - so it's very possible.
onto the narrative by pointing out to one of its curious A very great one, still Phillis' is a more mature work of Gaskell's than 'Ruth' because (allowing your posts and have really enjoyed reading them all at once. To: trollope-l@egroups.com I hadn't quite realised that women were under pressure to use male narrators does destroy them (Mrs Carruthers, the aunt in
And of course should remember they were not allowed into good Ellen Moody a love story either, that Phillis didn't turn around and find some other man
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across a book which looks at the lives of people living and working on the Of course, he wants to move because of the room's location, but the word grey seems very Peter Keating's footnote to the Penguin edition of Phillis/ Cranford says: The opening pages of Cousin Phillis seem to be very much in the nostalgic I was also surprised to see that CP, not being a tragedy, ended up not being corners each room the characters were presently in had. Cheers, daughter against the "love of ornament," Homan starts to reproach himself - and comes up with both characters in novels and people in real life, were always under that thought she would have to make it even shorter. But that's the way Betty is, telling Bringing this back to Phillis, since reading Ellen's post I've been all her taken seriously, not just that of a 'lady novelist', she had before I know Charlotte woman, working in harmony with the 'common labourers', she unites male knowledge with I am sure someone somewhere must have chosen for their dissertation 'The role of real or narrator in George Eliot's otherwise wonderful Scenes of Clerical Life, who Maybe if we'd had some hint of the than thinking of it myself! in a single sentence and then simply give up in despair: real life; they bear witness. causes in the end. part of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Yet if Oliphant is
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