Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[234] Vittoria, 373.

[235] Beauchamp’s Career, 369.

[236] Sandra Belloni, 68. This is followed by a fling at the “alliance with Destiny”, which reminds us of our recent American slogan of “Manifest Destiny.”

[237] Letters, II, 555. To Leslie Stephen, 1904.

[238] An Amazing Marriage, 480.

[239] Ibid., 147. Cf. also citations in the first part of this chapter.

[240] Middlemarch, I, 142. She also comments as follows on the undeniably just statement of Jermyn to Mrs. Transome that Harold should be told the secret of his birth:

“Perhaps some of the most terrible irony of the human lot is this of a deep truth coming to be uttered by lips that have no right to it.” Felix Holt, II, 242.

[241] Diana of the Crossways, 423.

[242] Evan Harrington, 117.