Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[138] Beauchamp’s Career, 6.

[139] The Egoist, 132. Later he indicates the corollary of this,—

“But not many men are trained to courage; young women are trained to cowardice. For them to front an evil with plain speaking is to be guilty of effrontery and forfeit the waxen polish of purity, and therewith their commanding place in the market.” Ibid., 296.

Cf. Evan Harrington, 208, for the muddled state of a young woman’s mind, only to be penetrated by “that zigzag process of inquiry conducted by following her actions, for she can tell you nothing, and if she does not want to know a particular matter, it must be a strong beam from the central system of facts that shall penetrate her.”

[140] The Egoist, 156.

[141] The Egoist, 5.

[142] The Egoist, 5.

[143] Our Mutual Friend, I, 166.

[144] Trollope: Barchester Towers, 299.

[145] The Egoist, 4. The “her” refers to Comedy.