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Ursula ([personal profile] ursula) wrote2006-05-17 12:58 am
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Dear World,

Why didn't you tell me that Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote novels for adults? Or, for that matter, that she had a scandalous affair and was divorced twice?

This novel was published in 1896. THE HEROINE HAS PREMARITAL SEX AND THEN KILLS HER SEDUCER ACCIDENTALLY WITH A LEAD-WEIGHTED RIDING CROP AND WALLS UP HIS BODY IN HER CELLAR. And she marries the man she loves and lives happily ever after as the perfect wife with six kids.

I don't care how much it talks about Christ, this is revolutionary, I tell you, revolutionary. Damn you, Trollope! Damn you, Barren Ground!

[Same game.]

[identity profile] cija.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's me. Unless there are two of us like that? Seems unlikely.

I'm totally going to read that book!