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{{quote|The vicious baronet is sure to be killed in a duel, and the tedious husband dies in his bed requesting his wife, as a particular favor to him, to marry the man she loves best, and having already dispatched a note to the lover informing him of the comfortable arrangement.}} |
{{quote|The vicious baronet is sure to be killed in a duel, and the tedious husband dies in his bed requesting his wife, as a particular favor to him, to marry the man she loves best, and having already dispatched a note to the lover informing him of the comfortable arrangement.}} |
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* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: whenever the heroine marries the [[Wrong Guy First|Evil Baronet]], he will dispose of himself via [[Duel to the Death]]. |
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: whenever the heroine marries the [[Wrong Guy First|Evil Baronet]], he will dispose of himself via [[Duel to the Death]]. |
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* [[Designated Hero]]: Elliott |
* [[Designated Hero]]: Elliott notes that, in the Evangelical type of novels, the Young Curate romantic interests who have co-protagonist status tend to be both very hyped in universe but actually rather flat and insipid as characters. |
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Mocked thoroughly the text. |
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Mocked thoroughly the text. |
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{{quote|The fair writers have evidently never talked to a tradesman except from a carriage window; they have no notion of the working-classes except as “dependents;” they think five hundred a year a miserable pittance; Belgravia and “baronial halls” are their primary truths; and they have no idea of feeling interest in any man who is not at least a great landed proprietor, if not a prime minister. [[...]] If their peers and peeresses are improbable, their literary men, tradespeople, and cottagers are impossible; and their intellect seems to have the peculiar impartiality of reproducing both what they ''have'' seen and heard, and what they have ''not'' seen and heard, with equal unfaithfulness.}} |
{{quote|The fair writers have evidently never talked to a tradesman except from a carriage window; they have no notion of the working-classes except as “dependents;” they think five hundred a year a miserable pittance; Belgravia and “baronial halls” are their primary truths; and they have no idea of feeling interest in any man who is not at least a great landed proprietor, if not a prime minister. [[...]] If their peers and peeresses are improbable, their literary men, tradespeople, and cottagers are impossible; and their intellect seems to have the peculiar impartiality of reproducing both what they ''have'' seen and heard, and what they have ''not'' seen and heard, with equal unfaithfulness.}} |