How have we never met in our small Middlemarch town my dear!? I feel like we would be very good company towards each other! We must have tea one evening very soon! I do say I found this reading of The Fox to be intriguing as well. Compared to the others we have read, I followed… View More

Mother, how could you let Letty read you this story. She is much to little to read this kind of material. Never mind that. I agree with what you are saying about Banford. She did have the strongest mind in my opinion. March could have learned a lot from her if not for her blindness… View More

I guess March did have it bad. I do not really have much sympathy towards her though. She chose her actions. I mean some of them might have been forcefully thrown on her yes, but she was able to make her own decisions. I do not think I would consider your actions worst then hers…. View More

Dr. Lydgate, what an interesting analysis you put on the relationships between March and Banford.  I did not want to say anything beforehand, but I must admit now that you have said it… I first thought of March and Banford as lovers.  Well, it was odd actually.  I didn’t quite know what to think.  The… View More

From the beginning, I did not think things were going to go in the direction that they were. I found that I thought I was reading a love story where there was the mysterious man that comes out of nowhere and the person who tries to keep the two apart. I did not expect what… View More

Why, Susan! It has never occurred to me that Eliot’s literature was influenced by a possibly neglectful marriage! But, I daresay you are on to something! A man with such..arrogance is sure to have such troubles with his wife. What woman, would let her husband not be known of how he sounds or portrays himself…. View More

D.H. Lawrence surprised me with his novella “The Fox.”  How enthralling and mysterious it was!  I could not so much as put it down for a second that I actually made my Letty read it to me as I cooked dinner.  What can I say?  It benefited us both.  She read to me from the… View More

The Fox by D.H. Lawrence has been the most remarkably eerie of all the precarious novels and tale’s I’ve puzzled over in my time. It began as though the tale would contain a verisimilitude to ordinary mundane event or crisis. Personally, I anticipated the fox to harass the woman and drive them off with fear…. View More

So many of the people now surrounding us are unsure of their world, trying desperately to make sense of it. March, Banford, and Henry are all attempting to do so, though their beliefs differ. It is troubling to me that yet again there is such an alienation from the natural world; none of these three… View More

I shall forgive you for your remark about my marriages as I feel I have had no bumps in the road.  With that being said, I am humbled that you think Miss March and I share similarities.  I do see qualities of myself in her character.  Women should be able to help around the homestead in roles… View More