The Law and the Lady

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@batsy is right. This book is 🍌👖! Per the introduction it‘s one of the first novels to feature a female (amateur) detective. The “Lady” definitely shares some characteristics with Marion Halcolmb from The Woman in White. She‘s subverting Victorian ideals of femininity but apologizing for it, more often than not. In some ways this book made me think the fairytale Bluebeard in the protagonist‘s effort to find out the truth about her husband.

Ruthiella My final book for #shelfsweeper 🥳 9h

BarbaraBB Oh wow I have never heard of this one but I loved The Woman in White so am definitely stacking. And I do miss @batsy and her recommendations! 9h

Ruthiella @BarbaraBB This is a good one! I recommend it! 👍 9h

Bookwormjillk Ohhhh I loved that character! Must read this! 8h

Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk If you read it, you will have to tell me if you agree with the parallels! 1h

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Ruthiella

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

#WhereAreYouMonday

I‘m only 100 pages in, but this is a kind of a Victorian detective novel where I suspect the sleuth will be traveling a bit between England and Scotland looking for clues and witnesses to overturn a “Scotch Verdict”.

Cupcake12

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Ruthiella

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

#weekendreads

Trying to get to my #Roll100 picks before the end of the month! 🤞

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batsy

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

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This book is BANANAS & I'm not ashamed to say that I was riveted. How you get along with it will depend on your tolerance for all of the bourgeois Victorian anxieties that come alive in these sensation novels; in this case, we have the usual fears & prejudices about "otherness" in relation to bodies, disability, & also ideal womanhood. The protagonist being an intelligent, independent woman is welcome; the embedded notions of femininity, less so!

batsy I found it strange & fascinating. I feel like the book was unintentionally revealing of the middle-class British Victorian psyche & it was all kinds of amusing, intriguing, & ugly. Lol. The mystery's resolution was also wild because of the notions of propriety that govern the conduct of the "good" characters. The men are absurd & the husband is beyond useless! This was a trip. Read it for #cloakanddaggerchristmas for the Inspector Bucket prompt. 3y

Cathythoughts Great review 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y

Amiable Love your review! 👍🏼 3y

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Lindy Stacked! 3y

Suet624 I only want to read about anxieties that make me laugh. :) Sounds like this might be the one to do it. 3y

Billypar Great review - sounds memorable to say the least! I've been curious about trying The Woman in White but I'm always a little hesitant to pick up giant 19th century tomes 🙂 3y

batsy @Cathythoughts @Amiable Thank you! 💕 3y

batsy @Lindy @Suet624 Just feel that I should warn you guys that what I found interesting might drive others up the wall 😅 3y

batsy @Billypar Ooh, The Woman in White is really fun! Right up my street with its weird Gothic-y detective fiction vibes 🙂 3y

merelybookish What a rollicking review! Your enjoyment of the book comes through! You manage to make Victorian lit (which I do love) sound...fun! And congrats on one inspector down. 😀 3y

quietjenn Well then! I'm convinced! Love this review. 3y

batsy @merelybookish Thank you! I love Victorian lit too, so maybe I'm predisposed to being somewhat favourable to this but Collins definitely has a knack of making things weird in a way that I enjoy 😁 3y

batsy @quietjenn Thank you! I hope it's a good read for you when you get to it. 3y

LeahBergen I‘m always down for some good bourgeois Victorian anxieties. 😆😆 3y

LeahBergen @Billypar I‘ve been meaning to read it for years, too! 3y

BarbaraBB Sounds great! I loved Woman in White and The Moonstone and have been looking for more Collins I just bought a copy of

The New Magdalen: A Novel

batsy @LeahBergen Right? The whole point of reading, imo 😂 3y

batsy @BarbaraBB Oh, nice! I haven't read that one. I'm looking forward to more Collins 🙂 3y

Ruthiella Not sure how I overlooked this post previously? Definitely stacking. Have you read No Name? Also bananas is the best possible way! 📚 🍌 3y

batsy @Ruthiella I haven't and I'm very excited to learn that it's also bananas! 😆 I do plan to read as much of Collins as I can. 3y

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schmia

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

The last half of 2017: bench trial, depositions, investigations, hearing prep, first appellate oral argument, not much time for social media. Thankful for an amazing first year at a new firm AND for time in December to finish the #LitsyAtoZ challenge. (And Mason and I are both thankful for a new couch for the reading nook!)

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Mdargusch It‘s perfect for a look out spot! 😻 7y

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stype

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

Giving it a go

DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy! 🎉📚👍😀Hope you enjoy it here! 7y

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon And here's a compilation of Litsy tips that some of us put together:
https://raimeygallant.com/2017/10/31/litsytips/ 7y

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schmia

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"There are some people who are never young, and there are other people who are never old. I am one of the other people."

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Marchpane

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

Mine is a bookish profession without any books. Our office has gone paperless, everything is online and I like it that way. I can take my laptop and work almost anywhere.

We do have a poky little library somewhere on the premises, where some dusty old volumes are huddled together, waiting for the End Times.

#workplacebooks #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge

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Mccall0113 There was a fire recently in my small town. The 200 year old building was a complete loss and a man lost his life. I'm also sad that my attorney lost his office along with all his law books. 9y

Marchpane @Mccall0113 I'm so sorry to hear that. And my thoughts and best wishes go out to your attorney, that must be a difficult thing to go through. 9y

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eclecticreading

The Law and the Lady | Wilkie COLLINS

I don't understand it either 😕 (or why Valeria, the person who wrote the above statement, loves Eustace so much, he's spineless and a coward. Valeria deserves better, but anyway)

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