"Miss Pross Miss Pross is a character in Charles Dickens' novel, ""A Tale of Two Cities"". Miss Pross is Lucie Manette's no-nonsense governess and friend. She accompanies Lucie to Dover when Lucie goes to France to retrieve her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, after his release from the Bastille, but her stout English patriotism causes her to stay in England. She is Lucie's constant companion accompanying her to the trial of Charles Darnay, to church, to just about everything. She is Lucie's shadow and protector, and overcomes her dislike of everything not English to accompany Lucie to France when her husband"
"French Revolution and deals with two men who are alike, not only in appearance, but in their love for the same woman. The film is generally regarded as the best cinematic version of Dickens' novel. On the eve of the French Revolution, Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) is informed that her father (Henry B. Walthall) is not dead, but has been a prisoner in the Bastille for many long years before finally being released. She travels to Paris to take her father to her home in England. Dr. Manette has been taken care of by a friend, Ernest Defarge (Mitchell Lewis),"
"cachet"". At the start of the novel, Manette has been recently released from the Bastille after a long imprisonment. He is briefly given shelter in Paris by his former servant Ernest Defarge (who will subsequently be a leader of the storming of the Bastille) and is then reunited with his daughter Lucie. He does nothing but make shoes, a pastime that he adopted to distract himself from the tortures of prison. He is clearly not in his mind during this time; he speaks only when necessary, and has become so used to being a prisoner that he can hardly bear"
"in Dover, he meets with Dr. Manette's daughter Lucie and her governess, Miss Pross. Lucie has believed her father to be dead, and faints at the news that he is alive; Lorry takes her to France to reunite with her father. In the Paris neighbourhood of Saint Antoine, Dr. Manette has been given lodgings by his former servant Ernest Defarge and his wife Therese, owners of a wine shop. Lorry and Lucie find him in a small garret, where he spends much of his time making shoes--a skill he learned in prison--which he uses to distract himself from his thoughts"
"young woman's submission of her body. The grisette as part of the bohemian sub-culture was a frequent character in French fiction of the time. She is personified as Rigolette in Eugene Sue's ""The Mysteries of Paris"", as Fantine in Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"" and Marthe in George Sand's ""Horace"", as well as in the protagonist in Alfred de Musset's ""Mademoiselle Mimi Pinson: Profil de grisette"". Notable examples in British and American fiction are Trilby in George Du Maurier's novel of the same name, and Marie in Edgar Allan Poe's short story ""The Mystery of Marie Roget"". Du Maurier based large"
"the main character in its sequel, ""Kushiel's Justice"". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel ""Villette"" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's ""The Haw Lantern"". In Christopher Moore's """", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book ""Possum Living"". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'"
"well as the life into which she initiated me"". The protagonist of the novel is a hermaphrodite named Marion who lives a double life, frequenting literary salons in female dress, then changing from skirt to trousers to attend gay soirées. Barney appears as ""Laurette Wells"", a salon hostess who spends much of the novel trying to win back an ex-lover, loosely based on Barney's real-life attempts at regaining her relationship with her former lover, Renée Vivien. She was awarded the first recipient of the Renée Vivien prize for women poets in 1936. One admirer wrote to describe Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, stating"
"decides to travel to Paris to collect important documents from the Tellson's branch in that city and bring them to London for safekeeping against the chaos of the French Revolution. Darnay intercepts a letter written by Gabelle, one of his uncle's servants who has been imprisoned by the revolutionaries, pleading for the Marquis to help secure his release. Without telling his family or revealing his position as the new Marquis, Darnay sets out for Paris. Shortly after Darnay arrives in Paris, he is denounced for being an emigrated aristocrat from France and jailed in La Force Prison. Dr. Manette, Lucie,"
"Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. ""Villette"" was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by ""The Professor"" (her posthumously published first novel, of which ""Villette"" is a reworking), ""Jane Eyre"", and ""Shirley"". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a ""pensionnat"""
"to England. Meanwhile, Madame Defarge, armed with a dagger and pistol, goes to the Manette residence, hoping to apprehend Lucie and little Lucie and bring them in for execution. However, the family is already gone and Miss Pross stays behind to confront and delay Madame Defarge. As the two women struggle, Madame Defarge's pistol discharges, killing her and causing Miss Pross to go permanently deaf from noise and shock. The novel concludes with the guillotining of Carton. As he is waiting to board the tumbril, he is approached by a seamstress, also condemned to death, who mistakes him for Darnay"
"Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem ""La Henriade"" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""La Reine Margot"" and its sequels, ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" and ""The Forty-Five Guardsmen"". Stanley Weyman's novel ""A Gentleman of France"" includes the Duke of Guise in its tale about the War of the Three Henries. Ken Follett's novel ""A Column of Fire"" features Henry, Duke of Guise as a prominent character, and explores his involvement with the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Duke is a leading character in the play ""The Massacre at Paris"", by Christopher Marlowe. George Onslow's"
"until that day. In consequence, Dr. Manette reverts to his obsessive shoemaking after the couple leave for their honeymoon. He returns to sanity before their return, and the whole incident is kept secret from Lucie. Lorry and Miss Pross destroy the shoemaking bench and tools, which Dr. Manette had brought with him from Paris. As time passes in England, Lucie and Charles begin to raise a family, a son (who dies in childhood) and a daughter, little Lucie. Lorry finds a second home and a sort of family with the Darnays. Stryver marries a rich widow with three children and"
"that she meets Sydney Carton, the drunken lawyer who falls in love with her. She reaches out to Carton out of concern for his well being, but is being actively courted by Darnay and accepts the latter's proposal. When Darnay and Lucie’s daughter is about six years old, Darnay returns to France. Lucie, Dr. Manette, their daughter, Little Lucie, and Miss Pross go after him after receiving notice of his imprisonment in La Force. Lucie relies on her father to rescue Darnay, which he does, but then Darnay is again accused. During his imprisonment, Lucie remains loyal and faithful to"
"Charles Dickens, Soho Square is where Lucie and her father, Doctor Manette, reside. It is believed that their house is modelled on the House of St Barnabas which Dickens used to visit, and it is for this reason that the street running behind the House from Greek Street is called Manette Street (it was formerly Rose Street). In the song ""Why Can't The English?"" from the musical ""My Fair Lady"", Professor Henry Higgins laments, ""Hear them down in Soho Square/Dropping H's everywhere."" In the novel ""Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"" by Susanna Clarke, the eponymous Jonathan Strange and his wife"
"little Lucie, Jerry, and Miss Pross travel to Paris and meet Lorry to try to free Darnay. A year and three months pass, and Darnay is finally tried. Dr Manette, viewed as a hero for his imprisonment in the Bastille, testifies on Darnay's behalf at his trial. Darnay is released, only to be arrested again later that day. A new trial begins on the following day, under new charges brought by the Defarges and a third individual who is soon revealed as Dr Manette. He had written an account of his imprisonment at the hands of Darnay's father and hidden"
"London, he finds work as a tutor of French language and literature. Darnay is put on trial for treason against the Kingdom of Great Britain, but the key eyewitness testimony against him is undermined when his defense counsel directs attention to Sydney Carton, a barrister who has been assisting in the case. The two men bear a strong resemblance to one another, and Darnay is acquitted as a result. Later, Darnay succeeds his uncle as Marquis when the latter is stabbed to death in his sleep by a French revolutionary. Both Darnay and Carton express their love for Lucie Manette,"
"allegiance to Arthur; it is dangerous, but she has no fear. Lynette acts so bravely and gracefully in the course of this work that she earns the respect of all those who travel with her (including Guinevere's unlucky admirer, Lancelot). Over the course of the novel, she meets up again with the man who raped her as a teenager and beheads him; she is later haunted by his ghost, but eventually manages to forgive him, thus finally freeing herself from the terrifying black creatures which were released each time she laid a curse upon him. She is also separated from"
"for example, used the Bastille and the legend of the ""Man in the Iron Mask"" extensively in his d'Artagnan Romances; in these novels the Bastille is presented as both picturesque and tragic, a suitable setting for heroic action. By contrast, in many of Dumas's other works, such as ""Ange Pitou"", the Bastille takes on a much darker appearance, being described as a place in which a prisoner is ""forgotten, bankrupted, buried, destroyed"". In England, Charles Dickens took a similar perspective when he drew on popular histories of the Bastille in writing ""A Tale of Two Cities"", in which Doctor Manette"
"initially set in the English countryside, and later follows Lucy Snowe to the fictional Belgian town of Villette, a Gothic town where the majority of the action takes place. Villette is modelled upon the city of Brussels and is set in the fictional kingdom of Labassecour (modelled on Belgium). ""Labassecour"" is the French word for farmyard. Lucy Snowe: The narrator and main character of ""Villette"". A quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman. Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe asserts, ""no attractive accomplishments – no beauty."" She seems to have no living relatives. Though usually reserved and emotionally self-controlled, Lucy has strong"
"lovers, Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de la Mole. Michael Fane, the hero of Compton Mackenzie's novel ""Sinister Street"", reads ""Manon Lescaut"" just before plunging into his own hopeless pursuit of a ""fallen woman"". In the first letter of Ivan Turgenev's short tale ""Faust"", the epistle writer mentions a portrait which had been seen as a portrait of Manon Lescaut. In Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's ""Venus in Furs"", the masochistic hero Severin refers approvingly to the Chevalier's love for Manon even after she has left him for another man. Manon features in the first poem of the Czech Decadent Karel Hlaváček's"
"her party in strange lands and kidnapped; she eventually finds her way out through a network of caves with the help of a very peculiar young man named Lucius. Lucius has lived in the dark so long that he is completely blind and very pale, with light blue hair. He was imprisoned along with his mother, who subsequently died, but he met a sort of witch just outside the caves who befriended him, and he is happy with his simple life. Lynette spends a considerable amount of time with the pair, and eventually falls in love with Lucius. She feels"
"He is transformed from an insensate prisoner who mindlessly cobbles shoes into a man of distinction. The contemporary reader tends to understand human individuals not as fixed entities but rather as impressionable and reactive beings, affected and influenced by their surroundings and by the people with whom they interact. In Dickens' age, however, this notion was rather revolutionary. Manette’s transformation testifies to the tremendous impact of relationships and experience on life. The strength that he displays while dedicating himself to rescuing Darnay seems to confirm the lesson that Carton learns by the end of the novel — that not only"
"Juliette (novel) Juliette is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying Sade's ""Nouvelle Justine"". While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an amoral nymphomaniac murderer who is successful and happy. The full title of the novel in the original French is ""L'Histoire de Juliette ou les Prospérités du vice"", and the English title is ""Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded"" (versus ""Justine, or Good Conduct Well-Chastised"", about Juliette's virtuous sister). As many other of his works, ""Juliette"" follows a pattern of violently pornographic scenes followed"
"years of his life. The essay ""Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality"" in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's ""Dialectic of Enlightenment"" (1947) analyzes Juliette as the embodiment of the philosophy of enlightenment. They write: ""she demonizes Catholicism as the most-up-to-date mythology, and with it civilization as a whole […] her procedures are enlightened and efficient as she goes about her work of sacrilege […] She favours system and consequence."" Juliette (novel) Juliette is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying Sade's ""Nouvelle Justine"". While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but"
"Lynette and Lyonesse In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as ""Linnet"", ""Linette"", ""Lynet"", or ""Lyonet"") is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also ""Linesse"", ""Lionesse"", ""Lyonorr"" and other names), whose lands are besieged by the Red Knight. The sisters are most famously depicted by Thomas Malory in ""Le Morte d'Arthur"". In ""Book IV: The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney"", Dame Lynette comes to court asking for assistance against the Red Knight of the Red Lands. Since Lynette refuses to reveal her name for reasons which"
"E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Princess Brambilla (1821) is more concerned with the interplay between jealousy and the theater, between reality and masks. In Charlotte Brontë’s ""Villette"" (1853) jealousy becomes a game of reflections and speculations, a potent denial of sexual stereotypes, and, like many novels written by women, an angry rejection of the violation of the individual caused by the gaze of the jealous lover. Anthony Trollope uses both ""He Knew He Was Right"" (1869) and ""Kept in the Dark"" (1882) to analyze not only double standards used to judge how men and women behave but also the relationship between"
"New Orléans. Minette was among those emigrating to New Orléans, where she died in 1807. In New Orleans, she is referred to by the name Minette Ferrand. Minette as well as Lise may have performed at the Theatre de la Rue Saint Pierre. Minette et Lise have been the object of a novel of Marie Chauvet, ""La Danse sur le Volcan"" (Paris: Plon, 1957; Paris / Léchelle: Maisonneuve & Larose / Emina Soleil, 2004 (reprint with a preface by Catherine Hermary-Vieille); Léchelle: Zellige, 2008, 2009)[3] Translated into English by Salvator Attanasio as Dance on the Volcano (New York: William Sloane"
"in the village of Daggerhorn, on the edge of a forest plagued by a werewolf, with her parents, Cesaire and Suzette, and older sister Lucie. She is in love with the town woodcutter Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry Henry Lazar, son of the wealthy blacksmith Adrien Lazar. Valerie and Peter plan to run away together, only to learn that the Wolf has broken its truce not to prey on the townspeople in exchange for cattle stock sacrifices and has murdered Lucie, who is revealed to have had a crush on Henry Lazar. Suzette learns of"
"discusses and quotes Timon in his ""Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"" and ""Capital, Volume I"". Marx's analysis focuses on how passages from ""Timon of Athens"" (Act IV, Scene III) shed light on the nature and amoral power of money: Charlotte Brontë includes an allusion to Timon in ""Villette"" (1853). Ginevra Fanshawe affectionately nicknames Lucy ""Timon,"" which highlights Ginevra's role as a foil for Lucy. Herman Melville references Timon repeatedly in his novel ""The Confidence-Man"" (1857), when referring to confidence as a preferable trait in all circumstances to misanthropy. Charles Dickens alludes to Timon in ""Great Expectations"" (1861) when Wopsle"
"papers prove nearly fatal to the novel's protagonist, Charles Darnay, in recounting a series of injustices and murders by his father and uncle. Worse still, these infamies were committed against the family of Madame Defarge, Ernest's ruthless wife, who convinces him to denounce Darnay to the guillotine. Generally good-natured and decent, Defarge is torn by loyalty to his wife and loyalty to Dr. Manette; he does nothing to stop Manette's family from escaping France, despite Madame Defarge's urging. Darnay is not executed however; he is saved by Carton. Carton prophesies that Ernest Defarge and the Vengeance will be consumed by"
"locket with the picture of his beloved little girl and in a vision sees her in the clouds holding out her arms to him that he, too, may enter with her the pearly gates, inside of which all souls are equal, and all free. The comedy of the story is furnished by little Eva's Aunt Ophelia, a queer old lawyer named Marx, and his stubborn donkey, to say nothing of Topsy, a wicked little colored girl, who Aunt Ophelia tries hard to convert."" The 1852 publication of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe was the best-selling novel of the"
"begins, Lorry escorts the adult Lucie Manette to Paris to retrieve her recently freed father and is troubled by what they will find on their arrival. When Charles Darnay is arrested on his arrival in England, Mr. Lorry retains the lawyers Stryver and Sydney Carton to defend Darnay. Mr. Lorry becomes an intimate friend of the Manettes. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Mr. Lorry goes to Paris to handle Tellson's bank business and at the same time tries to provide assistance to Lucie and her father during Darnay’s imprisonment. He softens to Carton and by the time Darnay"
"Sainte-Eutrope, liberating her from Sister Sainte-Christine's persecution. At the Sainte-Eutrope convent, the Mother Superior is revealed to be a lesbian and she grows affectionate towards Suzanne. The Mother Superior attempts to seduce Suzanne, but her innocence and chaste eventually drives the Mother Superior into insanity, leading to her death. Suzanne escapes the Sainte-Eutrope convent using the help of a priest. Following her liberating, she lives in fear of being captured and taken back to the convent as she waits for the help of Marquis de Croismare. Diderot was a well-known atheist; however, he did not use the novel as an"