.... Such circumstances faced T hom as R. M itchell in his b o o k Hawthorne s Fuller Mystery. Mitchell attempts to recast the relationship (believed to be an­ tagonistic) between N athaniel Haw thorne and M argaret Fuller, and views H aw thorne as exam ining his relationship with Fuller through his works. After...

... to a con q u erin g king, Ladislas of Naples; she carries with h er a poisoned handker­ chief, and when the king embraces her, both he and the young woman die.7 All o f these possibilities are certainly convincing and p o in t unequivocally to the extraordinary scope of H aw thorne s read ­ ings...

... ith characters w ho are living on the 'borderline' o f sanity it was not long before we had gathered this."29 H. D., in her T irza T rue Latim er 39 prom otional w ritings, describes the characters "Astrid" and "Thorne" as "borderline social cases, not out of life, not in life .. . . Astrid, the white...

... o f contricyoun in-to herte" (Jacob's Well, ed. A rthu r Brandéis EETS os 115 [London: Kegan Paul.Trench &Trubner, 1900] 65). 5 Sermon E51, II. 107-10 o f English W ycliffite Sermons, 5 vols., ed. Pamela Gradon and Anne Hudson (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983-96). In this passage, the thorn has been changed...

... on the fourteen Stations o f the Cross in church and prayed the five Sorrowful Mysteries on their rosary beads w ill recognize m any parts o f Gibson's station play: the agony in the garden, the scourging at the pillar, the crow n­ ing of thorns, the carrying of the cross, Veronica w iping Jesus's face, Simon...

..., empty self one discovers one is alone with. 1 Compared favorably by Adeline Tintner to Sir H ugh Walpole s classic terror tale The Silver Mask 2 and by Donald Burleson to Haw thorne s twin tales of knowledge gained through dark exploration, My Kinsman, Major M olineux and Young Goodman Brown, W...

....34 M elville demonstrates how the tw o activities of tourism and romance coincided when he advises the reader o f "H aw thorne and His Mosses" that " if you travel away inland into his deep and noble nature, you w ill hear the far roar of [Hawthorne's] Niagara."35 But such spectacles as Hawthorne's...

... the Wanderer and Balzac s Peau de cha­ grin, Poe and H enry James, Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton, Haw­ thorne and Stevenson, Walter Pater and J. A. Symonds, J.-K Huysmans and E. Heron-Alien including borrowings from a handbook of embroidery and the South Kensington Museum pamphlets on musical instruments...

... recalls Mark 15:17-20: A nd they clothed him with purple, an d p latted a crowne o f thornes, and p u t it ab o u t his head, A nd begänne to salute him, Haile King of the Iewes. And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit vpon him, and bowing their knees, worshipped him. And when they had...

...; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian o f a Dog-stealer will annually be fo u n d em bodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the m ore observant students of nature), so, in the great social...

... and Balzac s Peau de cha­ grin, Poe and H enry James, Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton, Haw­ thorne and Stevenson, Walter Pater and J. A. Symonds, J.-K Huysmans and E. Heron-Alien including borrowings from a handbook of embroidery and the South Kensington Museum pamphlets on musical instruments and precious...

... implica­ tions. In Act Three, scene one, a character nam ed Morello seeks entrance to the castle in which Eugenia and her waiting women are imprisoned. Because men are prohibited from entering, Morello disguises himself as a woman, Madame Thorne, in order to get past the guards. The guards quickly realize...

..., creeping like a mouse before us fo r a hundred yards together, through the bottom of the thorns; yet it w ould not come into fair sight: but in the m orning early and when undisturbed, it sings on the top of a twig, gaping and shivering w ith its wings. Mr. Ray him self had no knowledge o f this bird...

..., for instance, he remembers sneaking out at night to snare woodcocks and scaling mountains to plunder a raven s nest. I was a fell destroyer, he admits (I, 311).11 The speaker of Nutting also betrays an antagonistic attitude towards nature, conceiving of his expedition as a mission against thorns...

... orld s P rospect lies, How tem pting to go through! b u t the view soon gives way to the gently rising hill o f tim e, its taxing slope m ade treacherous by Thorns, which form er Days had sown. 16Rem iniscent of the unworldly Fanny, on the o th er hand, are F inch s praises of the quiet, retired...

...: Paddington Press Ltd 89. 2 Jerem y H aw thorn, V irginia W oolf's Mrs. Dallow ay: A S tudy in A lie natio n (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex U niversity Press, 1975), 66. 3 See M orris Beja, "The London o f Mrs. Dalloway." Virginia W oolf M iscellany 7 (Spring 1977): 4. Reprinted in Mrs. Dalloway, ed. M orris Beja...