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Monstrous women appear in many novels, including those written by women. Some are redeemed, and some are defeated and one or two even triumph. A few are the main character. They all help the plot...

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The most awful thing in Mossy Trotter’s life is the prospect of being a page boy at Miss Silkin’s wedding. Mossy is seven years old. This should not happen to him. He will have to wear velvet...

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In The Wedding Group everyone seems to be tied to someone else in an unhealthy way. The title refers to a Wedgewood wedding group, never described, but much admired. The cold, rigid porcelain is ...

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We all know someone like Flora, popular, attractive, without insight or self-awareness, but still everybody’s favourite. Perhaps we even want to be her friend, because some of her lustre rubs o...

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‘… bullying, obnoxious, hypocritical, unpleasant, alienating, opportunistic, confrontational, monomaniacal, disloyal, dysfunctional, insufferably rude, foolish, grudge-bearing, and an anachro...

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The Sleeping Beauty is Elizabeth Taylor’s sixth novel – a romance, as the title suggests. It’s about how love can awaken people from inner deadness. Several people in this novel are awakene...

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