Theme: gender
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Economics
Each daughter can claim an income of £ 250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had ...
Wuthering Heights / Caregiving and Desire
And it is quite natural that you should desire amusement at your age; and that you would weary of nursing a sick man, and that man _only_ your father....
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Rejection
“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.
The War of the Worlds / Solidarity in Flight
Then, realising that he was deserted, he dodged round and made off down the lane after the chaise, with the sturdy man close behind him, and the fugit...
Pride and Prejudice / Misunderstanding and Accountability
I knew enough of your disposition to be certain, that had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady ...
Pride and Prejudice / Intellectual Sparring
He repeated the question, with some surprise at her silence. “Oh,” said she, “I heard you before; but I could not immediately determine what to say in...
Dracula / Loneliness and Hope
He took my hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetnes...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Unveiled
I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom ...
Pride and Prejudice / Redefining Femininity
Elizabeth, with nothing offensive, nothing_ viraginous, _nothing of the “New Woman” about her, has by nature what the best modern (not “new”) women ha...
Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty
The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...
Pride and Prejudice / Courage and Conflict
They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitt...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Observation
“There is no mystery, my dear madam,” said he, smiling. “The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places. There is no v...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Governess Displaced
“I have been a governess for five years,” said she, “in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel received an appointment at ...
Dracula / Gender and Truth
You will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think so, ...
Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety
Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Judgment
She was shown into the breakfast parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise. That she shoul...
Dracula / Aspiring Partnership
I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously. When w...
Gulliver's Travels / Perception vs Reality
But this princess, who has an infinite deal of wit and humour, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire, and commanded me to give his majesty an ac...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Hierarchies
Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks for the kind...
Dracula / Gendered Emotions
Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mi...
Frankenstein / Marriage and Society
The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. You...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Expectations
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the...
Gulliver's Travels / Social Dynamics
This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Influence
I had not believed it possible.” “I suspected as much,” replied Elizabeth. “But how did he account for it?” “It must have been his sisters’ doing.
Dracula / Power Dynamics
His door was ajar, so that he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He came at once; as he passed into the room, he asked Mina if the others...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Games
“You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure,--therefore you need not conceal your age.” “I am not one-and-twenty.” When the gentlemen had joined them, ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...
Pride and Prejudice / Idle Pursuits
She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way. Since the ----shire...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Veiled Encounters
I shall look forward to seeing you again this afternoon.” She dropped her thick black veil over her face and glided from the room. “And what do you th...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance Dynamics
And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead. They look upon it quite as their own, I dare say, whenever that happe...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the imp...
The War of the Worlds / Unexpected Alliance
Suddenly he stumbled and fell; his immediate pursuer went headlong, and he rose to his feet to find himself with a couple of antagonists again. He wou...
Gulliver's Travels / Gendered Education
In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but ...