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In the mornings, the two old women complain about their pains in the joints. Finally they reach their familiar river and set up a winter camp there. However, they hide inland from The People, another tribe, for fear of cannibalism. Fortunately, the two old women succeed in building up a generous supply of food made up of smoked musquashes and ...
A. A Story of Oki Islands; Hannah Abbott; Vanessa Abrams; Kay Adams-Corleone; Irene Adler; Aunt Agatha; Akivasha; Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".
The true identity of Datchery is one of the most contested points of the uncompleted mystery. It is widely believed that Datchery is one of the characters in the book in disguise, most likely candidates include Neville, Bazzard, Tartar, Helena, or even Edwin Drood himself in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dawkins, Jack see Artful Dodger
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective . Often characterised as an elderly spinster , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures, Helen H. Gardener (1885) [100] The Bostonians, Henry James (1886) Cathy the Caryatid (Polish: Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by Gabriela Zapolska (1886) The Woman Question, Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886) [101] Misogyny in Excelsis, Annie Besant (1887) [102] Women and Men, Thomas Wentworth ...
The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much ...
Both novels use the stream of consciousness technique to follow the thoughts of two characters, one older and one younger, during one day in a bustling city. [11] Woolf herself, writing in 1928, denied any deliberate "method" to the book, saying instead that the structure came about "without any conscious direction". [12]