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Entry: 'Hopes and Fears' - a Novel by Charlotte Yonge - A87887722
Author: SashaQ - happysad - Editor - U9936370

I need to add links, but here is an Entry about a novel that I quite enjoyed

Charlotte Yonge not at all familiar with her work, and thanks to this entry it looks interesting.

Well done!

Thanks bob

I've added links to the Entry now

Well done

This is amazingly good. It also proves that somewhere, sometime, there's a 'right reader' for every author. Even Charlotte Yonge, the woman I love to hate.

You've done a lovely job here of appreciation + deconstruction.

I have one request:

>>We meet Honora at the start of the novel when she is a young woman with auburn hair.<<

This is a beautiful sentence, and it made my day. But just in case nobody gets it, could you add another sentence? Is the auburn hair particularly stressed by the authoress? Does it play a role in Honora's fortunes? Does it change colour over time, due to the incredible stress of the fast-paced action of a Charlotte Yonge novel?

Or is it merely important, because appearances are so important to this fictional world?

How different her life would have been had Honora's hair been merely 'red'...As Mark Twain so astutely remarked, '“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.' This is amazingly good. It also proves that somewhere, sometime, there's a 'right reader' for every author. Even Charlotte Yonge, the woman I love to hate.

You've done a lovely job here of appreciation + deconstruction.

I have one request:

>>We meet Honora at the start of the novel when she is a young woman with auburn hair.<<

This is a beautiful sentence, and it made my day. But just in case nobody gets it, could you add another sentence? Is the auburn hair particularly stressed by the authoress? Does it play a role in Honora's fortunes? Does it change colour over time, due to the incredible stress of the fast-paced action of a Charlotte Yonge novel?

Or is it merely important, because appearances are so important to this fictional world?

How different her life would have been had Honora's hair been merely 'red'...As Mark Twain so astutely remarked, '“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.'

Please forgive the verboseness. That's due to my struggle with the parser, which was being recalcitrant today. First it erased my post, then reproduced it. Quelle horreur.

Charlotte would not have been pleased.

Thanks Dmitri

Yes, at 570 pages or thereabouts, the novel was a bit long, to say the least, but there were some superb chapters about love and loss that really resonated with me so it was a pleasure to read.

I've added a bit more about Honora's hair - it does indeed change colour over time because of the incredible stress of the fast pace of the Charlotte Yonge novel

Verboseness forgiven - it has been playing up today... Yes indeed Charlotte would not be pleased to have no opportunity to edit that!

I am relieved to know the answer to the hair conundrum.

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