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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM: RICHARD FEVEREL AND THE ACTRESS IN THE HOUSE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2007

Emily Allen
Emily Allen
Affiliation:
Purdue University
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Abstract

“One of the very worst books of that abominable class!” exclaimed the old lawyer, opening at the coloured frontispiece, from which brazen Miss Random smiled bewitchingly out, as if she had no doubt of captivating Time and all his veterans on a fair field. “Pah!” he shut her to with the energy he would have given to the office of publicly slapping her face.

—George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Promiscuous adj. 1. Consisting of diverse and unrelated parts or individuals; confused. 2. Lacking standards of selection; indiscriminate. 3. Indiscriminate in sexual relations. 4. Casual; random. [Latin promiscuus, mixed: pro (intensifier), thoroughly + miscere, to mix.]

—American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Type
Research Article
Information
Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 81 - 101
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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