...- ries of moments spent with Betsey, Gene, their dog Josef, and various cats along the way — Tapestry, Cleopatra, Georgia, and Carolina — first in their home in Rochester and later in Atlanta. I met Betsey when I began graduate school at the University of Rochester in 1975. I had come...

... Betsey managed a smile and a greeting whenever she entered a classroom or passed them on the quad- rangle. She taught classes, directed dissertations, read books and manuscripts, crafted arguments, and wrote articles at a pace characteristic of a fresh PhD out...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Lowe refused to fund a dig there. Davies s usefulness and limits are revealed by her exploitation of Tenniel s Punch cartoon depicting Gladstone and Lowe as Mrs. Gamp and Betsey Prig. This is excellent evidence for Davies s theme of middle- class awareness, but she has...