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Margaret Anne Doody

Birth date: September 21, 1939

Website: english.nd.edu/people/profiles/doody

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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it

9 years ago

text The Female Quixote : or, the Adventures of Arabella

This was fun, mostly because it's a satire that can no longer pain anyone (directly). The romances upon which Arabella is so fixated are long since gone from popular culture. The assumptions she wrongly draws from them (because of her isolation) - that men die of love, and women have to pardon them ...

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ReaderMarija's Reviews rated it

10 years ago

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My first thoughts upon completing Cecilia were centered on the fact of its thematic relevancy for a modern audience. It’s a story that could easily play out today on the screen: A young girl gains an inheritance and is thrust into high society with little to no guidance but her own innocent good hea...

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Climbing Mount TBR rated it

10 years ago

text Cecilia

I enjoyed this book more than I anticipated. Cecilia is a young heiress who can only receive her fortune if she marries a man who will take her name. Considering the era this is almost insurmountable unless she marries "beneath" her. The book begins with her still under age and her uncle her guard...

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