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We see her face, we see her foot, and we know.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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Jo March of Little Women is one, the eponymous Anne of Green Gables another, Betsy Ray of the beloved Betsy-Tacy books a third.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Another precedent can be found in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775), one of the most popular plays of the century (and mentioned in Mansfield Park): its upper-class heroine is so entranced by the illicit elopements found in novels that her lover is forced to disguise himself as an illicit poor suitor in order to win her affection.
David M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
Give us some wholesome young fellow of our own blood, who’ll play us none of these dusky old-world tricks. Painter as I am, I’ll never recommend a picturesque husband!’
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
