“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet again, she is freed from this match and rewarded with a handsome young kindred spirit. Art… — 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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