The woman of colour : a tale by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Women, Black -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction, Women -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- Fiction, Race relations in literature
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Published: 2008-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Notes

1 Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard” (1751). 128 ANONYMOUS

1 Aesop’s fable “The Cat and the Mice” (sometimes called “Mice in Council” or “The Belling of the Cat.”), in which the proverb is, it is no use having bright ideas unless we are willing to put them into practice.

THE WOMAN OF COLOUR 129

1 A character in Nicholas Rowe’s play The Fair Penitent (1703) who seduces and betrays the female lead; the name has come to mean any lecherous male.

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1 Jacob agreed to serve Rachel’s father, Laban, for seven years in order to win her love.

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1 The opening lines of a song from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (Il.vii).

2 Spoken by the Apothecary in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (V.i.78).

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1 Proverbs 22:2.

2 Matthew 20:12.

THE WOMAN OF COLOUR 135

1 Psalm 126:5.

THE WOMAN OF COLOUR 137

1 Taken from Lear’s speech in William Shakespeare’s King Lear (III.iv.2930).

2 Matthew 6:3.

THE WOMAN OF COLOUR 139

1 John Wesley’s “A Prayer in Time of Affliction,” in A Christian Library Consisting of Extracts from and Abridgements of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity, which have been Published in the English Tongue. In 50 Volumes (Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley, 1749-55), Vol. XXI, 231. The correct wording is “So these light afflictions which are but for a moment, may work for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

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