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The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh | Molly Greeley

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Sorry team! I read Chapter 23 last night & picked out some pics but then crashed & had a long workday today. So I‘ll try to keep this one brief too & be better tomorrow because I have 4 days off!

So, I loved this chapter! Our Anne has discovered books & reading in a big way! She finished Waverley & found The Mysteries of Udolpho on Cousin John‘s shelf & chooses to stay home & read rather than⬇️

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DebinHawaii …attend a dinner with the FWs & Mr. Watters (a girl after my own heart!) The quotes in this chapter were 🤩 too. I love the one about Lady C “her imagination so slender as to be nonexistent. It was little wonder she scorned such books: she had no means to understand them.”🧐🤣 Then there is the book sent over from Miss A. the “rather radical” A Vindication of the Rights of Women by OG feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Although intimidated by this ⬇️ 1y

DebinHawaii …intellectual work” Anne finds herself entranced & unable to sleep—she wants to steal down to John‘s book room or head to Miss A‘s & see her & talk about it. A reader is born! She even has saved the last bit of Udolpho to savor at the end. At church the next day, Anne contemplates how busy her once dormant mind is & how capable of MORE she is despite what she has always been told. The world is her oyster! ⬇️ (edited) 1y

DebinHawaii What did you think about this chapter? What stood out? Have you read any of the books mentioned? Some day I will finish Udolpho on Serial Reader, I swear it! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Here‘s a link to info on Mary W. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/mary_wollstone... 1y

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SarahBookInterrupted @DebinHawaii thank you for the link about Mary Wollstonecraft. Very interesting and I loved that her daughter wrote Frankenstein. 1y

SarahBookInterrupted I also loved this chapter. A book lover is born. 1y

AllDebooks Loved joining Anne on discovery of books. The best biography I've ever read was

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

IndoorDame I keep saying I have to read Udolpho! It‘s mentioned in so many of the books I love! I did read and enjoy The Italian, so I don‘t know why I‘m so intimidated by this one? 1y

AllDebooks @IndoorDame me too. I keep forgetting about it 🤭 1y

ravenlee I‘ve intended to read Udolpho for years, and someday I probably will. I read Vindication a million years ago in college, but I need to reread it. I really loved this section (that bit about Lady C was perfect!), with Anne‘s intellectual awakening. 😍 1y

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