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Enid
Edward is Enid’s husband and Alice’s father. Fay does not reveal much of his character throughout the book, indicating only that he is against feminism and worries about Fay’s corrupting influence on Alice. It is unclear whether he is interested in reconciling with Fay, but at the end of the book he is nonetheless planning to attend tea with her and Enid as long as Fay does not talk about “novels, writing, feminism, or allied subjects.”
Edward Quotes in Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
The Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen quotes below are all either spoken by Edward or refer to Edward. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Letter 6
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You are not the model for Chloe in Female Friends. Too many of my friends claim that role, in any case, for you to be able to do so sensibly. Any woman who waits upon her husband as a servant upon a master—and they are legion—all too easily sees herself in Chloe. But I made her up. I promise.
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Letter 8
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As if it were decreed that your mother Enid should put bread rolls to rise every night for your father Edward’s breakfast, in order that a certain paragraph in a certain novel should be written. As if the City of Invention, little by little, using a chapter here, a paragraph there, is waking from its slumber and will eventually be more real than life itself, and we its servants, its outrunners.
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Edward Quotes in Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
The Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen quotes below are all either spoken by Edward or refer to Edward. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Letter 6
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You are not the model for Chloe in Female Friends. Too many of my friends claim that role, in any case, for you to be able to do so sensibly. Any woman who waits upon her husband as a servant upon a master—and they are legion—all too easily sees herself in Chloe. But I made her up. I promise.
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Letter 8
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As if it were decreed that your mother Enid should put bread rolls to rise every night for your father Edward’s breakfast, in order that a certain paragraph in a certain novel should be written. As if the City of Invention, little by little, using a chapter here, a paragraph there, is waking from its slumber and will eventually be more real than life itself, and we its servants, its outrunners.
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