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I've added my new description. Originally I'd thought that Carlton's Roman (or papistical, as used to be said) leanings would get him trouble, but though that might be the subject of a Trollopian ecclesiastical comedy in Barsetshire, things are more serious here. On the whole I'm afraid I found the ...

The last two chapters -- 32-33 are now up and I'll rework the description tomorrow.

Nick

chaps. 30 and 31 are now up. I'm also going to get to work on the descriptive note, having had a very interesting reply from a colleague who's a historian of Britain, about how the Church of England handled difficult cases like this.

Nick

Chapter 29 is up.

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chaps. 27 and 28 are now up.

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25 and 16 are up, both fairly short. I must say that though I realize we are around 1880 here, and thus in the midst of High Victorianism at its highest, it seems a bit much for a girl to be ashamed of herself as "unmaidenly" because she asks the local vicar for the source of a poem he quo...

chaps. xxiii and xxiv are now up.

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Chaps. xxi and xxii are up.

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Chapter xx is now up.

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Chap. xix is now up. Long and grim, but I think things may be looking up a bit.

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Chapters xvii and xviii are up.

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chap, xvi is now up.

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Chaps. xiv and xv are now up.

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Chap. xii and xiii are now up, both very short.

Nick

There indeed women who climbed -- Annie Peck was one of them in, I think. the Alps, the Andes and perhaps elsewhere. And the clothes in which both men and women climbed look very clumsy today. There's a photo of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine, high on Mount Everest in 1924, wearing heavy twe...