“The plot of Love on a Mortal Lease is not unlike those Shakespear would use later, nor unlike those of commonplace Victorian works. The heroine, Rachel Gwynne, has dead parents, as is the case from Oliver Twist (1837) through hundreds… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Do you seriously think I’m coming to your dance?” I went on. “Why, I haven’t got a dress, or a face fit to show in a ball-room; and I’ve not been to a ball for years.” They fought this statement inch by inch: they would lend me a dress; my face didn’t matter; and after all, I was only twenty-eight,… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share
“who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper things where… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter Scott’s heroines,… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Though Shakespear remained anonymous as “Diana Vernon” in The Man and the Masks,” — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“I had passed through many deaths since that night when she had been born in all her beauty; for is not “every step we… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“A woman must be good,” he said reflectively. “Only a plain woman,” said I. “Who has been behaving ill now?” “I was generalizing; or,… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“My father had taken me, as a young girl, to balls. I had sat out unnoticed, but observant; and it had seemed to me… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“The plot of Love on a Mortal Lease is not unlike those Shakespear would use later, nor unlike those of commonplace Victorian works. The… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
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