Beth Book
{{The Beth Book}}
Basic Info
- Author: Sarah Grand
- Year: 1897
- Type: primary 1
Summary (brief)
-Semi-autobiographical novel from Grand's New Woman series. Features characters from HT. Violent mother and alcohol father. Beth marries a philandering doctor who vivsects a dog.
Major Themes
- #vivisection
- #attic
- #dailylife
- #marriage/relationships/friendship
- #woman-as-house
- #addiction
- #domesticabuse
- #Autofiction
Key Passages / Quotes
Quote 1
quote:: “no one thought of the waste of women in this respect”
page:: 4
themes:: wastedwoman
Quote 2
quote:: “She seemed to be seeing and hearing and feeling without eyes, or ears, or a body”
page:: 16
quote: "The devil is a bad road"
page:: 4
themes:: monstrous-feminine, woman-as-house, intuition
Quote 3
quote:: “It is customary to sacrifice the girls of a family to the boys; to give them no educational advantages, and then to jeer at them for their ignorance and silliness”
page:: 47
themes:: hatingwomen
Quote 4
quote:: “She belonged to early Victorian times, when every effort was made to mould the characters of women as the homes of the period were built”
page:: 51
themes::
Quote 4
quote:: “Beth was fascinated by the folk-lore of the place, and soon surpassed Harriet herself in the interpretation of dreams and the reading of signs and tokens”
page:: 51
themes:: intuition, spirituality
Quote 5
quote:: “Things come into my mind, but I don't think them, and I can't say them”
page:: 72
themes:: intuition, spirituality
Quote 6
quote:: “body, soul, and spirit, says the saint; and there is spiritual power”
page:: 72
themes:: intuition, spirituality, embodiment
Genre Notes
Characters / Concepts (if relevant)
Theory Connections
Related Texts
- Heavenly Twins
- City of Dreadful Delight (see hypnosis, women as mediums, TBB P. 52 quote
My Argument / Interpretation
Ties of home, P.92
Intuition, 86
Dissertation Relevance
How could this matter to my project?
-I want to write about intuition