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I'm on page 210 of 328 of The Grand Sophy: A very odd, anti-semitic couple of chapters. Hubert, younger brother, gets himself in debt to Goldhanger and leaves a family heirloom with Goldhanger as collateral. Sophy goes to Goldhanger's business. Goldhanger is dirty, greedy, criminal, cunning, bony-fingered, semitic nose, etc. etc. Spoiler coming up--Sophy gets the ring back from Goldhanger after PULLING A GUN OUT~too much in so many ways. I want to look up the date of this book to see just how recently such out-and-out anti-semiticism was considered acceptable.
Checked: 1950 Also discovered that the Goldhanger chapters are deleted from some newer editions of the book. Rewriting history and cleaning up Heyer's reputation. Awful! |
February 1895 (Alice died in 1892) Money problems, jealousy of Wilde; time spent with Lord Wolseley1; off to Ireland to lick his wounds; Irish unrest--Irish landlords boycott all social events; much time spent with manservant Hammond (homosexual attraction again); fancy dress ball, appalling to James, who is only happy in company of Hammond, though Hammond remains a servant and no more; little girl alone on the grounds--inspiration for Turn of the Screw?; conflict with Webster who alludes to Wilde's successful play and HJ's failure; Wolseley was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army . He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa, and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. He served in Burma, the Crimean War , the Indian Mutiny , China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his Ashanti campaign (18...
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