![]() There have been three or four points so far (chap 49) where I have wondered whether Lydgate was doing the right thing: Posted By kev67 at Fri, 6:02 PM in Middlemarch || 5 Replies Why is he so weak? The way he is written he seems more like seventy. No Mr Bounderby was in her bedroom, and I wonder whether he was just not interested in women.Ĭome to think of it, I wonder what was really medically wrong with Mr Casaubon. In one chapter Louisa is described leaving her bedroom to have a serious talk with her brother. That marriage looks like it may not have been consummated either. ![]() Interestingly, Martin Amis also talked about Hard Times by Charles Dickens in which a fifty-year-old Mr Bounderby marries a twenty-year-old Louisa Gradgrind. There was a bit in the book, after they have had a bit of a row, when Dorothea meets Casaubon in a corridor and they go to their bedroom. I did wonder if they ever got it on, but apart from them not having any children I could not detect any evidence either way. ![]() I just read this article in The Guardian in which both Martin Amis and Kathryn Hughes write that the marriage between Casaubon and Dorothea was unconsummated. ![]()
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