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Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances) (1842) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Lady Anne has fallen on hard times but the world must not see this. Also, she has five daughters, all of whom must be found husbands from the aristocracy. However, love intrudes where it should not and those daughters have minds of their own. Nevertheless, Lady Anne persists right to end in keeping up appearances.
The first volume of this novel was received in New York shortly prior to the author's death. It was completed by another in accordance with the author's intentions but without those epigrammatic statements that were so much her territory.
Lady Anne has fallen on hard times but the world must not see this. Also, she has five daughters, all of whom must be found husbands from the aristocracy. However, love intrudes where it should not and those daughters have minds of their own. Nevertheless, Lady Anne persists right to end in keeping up appearances.
The first volume of this novel was received in New York shortly prior to the author's death. It was completed by another in accordance with the author's intentions but without those epigrammatic statements that were so much her territory.
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“Joy and sorrow are the inseparable companions of death.”
“Modern history might be told by a succession of dinners.”
“Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.”
“Best intentions are not the best things in the world to marry upon.”
“Every one considers the world as made especially for their own purposes.”
“Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.”
“-- shopping ! one of the pleasant necessities in a young lady's case who is about to change her condition, filled up the morning.”
“Nothing more indicates those tastes and habits which go so far towards both making and showing the character — as a person's sitting-room.”
“Now there is nothing that puts people out of their way more than a change from their usual sitting-room ; it is almost as bad as moving to a new house.”
“... the horizon of matrimony is only seen through a glass, and that darkly, if the experience of others be the glass by which we make our observations.”
“Those who have all their lives been accustomed to a cheerful and happy home, can scarcely understand the extent to which domestic tyranny is sometimes carried.”
“When we trace to their source the most important circumstances of our life, in what trifles have they originated! — a look, a word, are the ministers of fate.”
“Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise.”
“The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.”
“... a disgust for political and fashionable society (which is, in fact, very generally to be found in those who are engaged in public offices, conscious that they do the work for which others are paid)”
About Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances)
Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances) (1842) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Lady Anne has fallen on hard times but the world must not see this. Also, she has five daughters, all of whom must be found husbands from the aristocracy. However, love intrudes where it should not and those daughters have minds of their own. Nevertheless, Lady Anne persists right to end in keeping up appearances.
The first volume of this novel was received in New York shortly prior to the author's death. It was completed by another in accordance with the author's intentions but without those epigrammatic statements that were so much her territory.
Lady Anne has fallen on hard times but the world must not see this. Also, she has five daughters, all of whom must be found husbands from the aristocracy. However, love intrudes where it should not and those daughters have minds of their own. Nevertheless, Lady Anne persists right to end in keeping up appearances.
The first volume of this novel was received in New York shortly prior to the author's death. It was completed by another in accordance with the author's intentions but without those epigrammatic statements that were so much her territory.