The Art of the Epigraph by Rosemary Ahern

The Art of the Epigraph by Rosemary Ahern

Author:Rosemary Ahern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Book


AN EXCELLENT THING IN A WOMAN

Since I can do no good because a woman,

Reach constantly at something that is near it.

—THE MAID’S TRAGEDY :

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER

In Middlemarch (1871–1872), George Eliot

George Eliot (pseudonym of Marian Evans) chose to evoke the struggles of her heroine Dorothea Brooke with these lines from a seventeenth-century play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, members of the King’s Men—the company of actors to which Shakespeare belonged for most of his career.

She’s not pretty, she’s not wearing rouge.

—SAINTE-BEUVE

In The Red and the Black (1830), Stendhal



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