 | Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...puddings only proved an incentive that eventually caused her to excel. She wrote to Miss Talbot: ' One would think you had a mind to insult me upon a...prove my everlasting disgrace, for they made a perfect era of it—every remarkable thing was sure to happen on the day "my sister made the brandy pudding"... | |
 | Shari Benstock - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...problematic meaning for her: at the age of thirty, she reports an episode from her teens, when she "produced a pudding of a new invention, so overcharged...unlucky event was like to prove my everlasting disgrace" (15 Sept. 1747, Pennington 1:218). The children's association of domestic failure with intellectual... | |
 | Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...problematic meaning for her: at the age of thirty, she reports an episode from her teens, when she "produced a pudding of a new invention, so overcharged...unlucky event was like to prove my everlasting disgrace" (15 Sept. 1747, Pennington, 1:218). The children's association of domestic failure with intellectual... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...she has perfected "a special good sweet cake" only because her earlier disastrous efforts had made the "children all set up their little throats against Greek and Latin." 42 Carter's domestic skills consolidate the sense in which her scholarship marks her out as impolite,... | |
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One would think you had a mind to insult me upon a misfortune that happened to me some fifteen years ago, when I produced a pudding of a new invention, so overcharged with pepper and brandy that it put the whole family in a flame. The children all set... 