ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tyrant, List Of Skulduggery Pleasant Characters, Daphne Du Maurier
10 Dec 2015
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Rebecca in the first part of the 20th century. Paid companions the type of era. Devoted servants devoted to their employers. America vs. britain mrs. van hopper being from america. Maxim (name) meaning how one should act. An agreeable writer of agreeable fiction, but not a great or serious author . Genre writer aligning herself with fixed genres. Crime fiction: violent disruption of the social. Wanting to giving us a model for human relations that is very harmonious. Instead of being companion to mrs. van hopper you become mine, and your duties will be almost exactly the same (58) transferring companionship. How is she going to make that leap from a companion to the mistress of. I thought of the soft white dress in its fold of tissue paper, and how it would hide my flat dull figure, my rather sloping shoulders thinking dressing up will transform her.
