16/1 £50 book tokens and goody bag

smartie1976

20d - Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders

kirsteenatom

smartie1976 wrote: »

12c. Frank Crutchley (Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers)

12e? - Lucy, from Forsters Room With a View.

13d? - Lady brenda last (A handful of dust, Evelyn Waugh)

14c. Oscar Wilde wrote this, Lady Bracknell speaks about Lady Dumbleton in The Importance Of Being Earnest (3rd Act).

Did my musings point you in the right direction for the last two? I have been struggling to put the last pieces together lol - still suffering from flu and not thinking as clearly as usual

Kirsteen

lilias

silverangel35 wrote: »

Anyone worried about this part that is stated on the comp page??

"Preference will be shown to entries compiled without use of the internet"

Does that mean they dont expect anyone to get them all right without the internet?? And how would they know ??

Perhaps TLS readers
a) have read everything on the list and
b) are young enough to remember, in great detail, everything they have read.

While I know I've read that line about indecent postcards somewhere and I'm blowed if I can remember where.

kirsteenatom

The alternative title for First Impressions I am pretty sure it is Pride and Prejudice
16c. can anyone confirm?

never mind found this:

The title <cite>Pride and Prejudice</cite> refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title <cite>First Impressions</cite>, and was probably in the form of an exchange of letters; <cite>First Impressions</cite> was actually the first of Jane Austen's works to be offered to a publisher, in 1797 by Jane Austen's father, but the publisher turned it down without even looking at the manuscript.

NOSONDDU

James Thurber's story from My Life and Hard times which mentions his Great-Uncle Zenas dying of chestnut blight and the need for a family friend to impersonate him in order to calm Thurber's senile grandfather.

NOSONDDU

kirsteenatom wrote: »

The alternative title for First Impressions I am pretty sure it is Pride and Prejudice
16c. can anyone confirm?

never mind found this:

The title <CITE>Pride and Prejudice</CITE> refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title <CITE>First Impressions</CITE>, and was probably in the form of an exchange of letters; <CITE>First Impressions</CITE> was actually the first of Jane Austen's works to be offered to a publisher, in 1797 by Jane Austen's father, but the publisher turned it down without even looking at the manuscript.

and I found this

Pride and Prejudice, originally entitled First Impressions

kirsteenatom

17e)
Pedrillo in Don Juan, Canto the Second by Lord Byron

<dl><dt>XXV
</dt><dt> His suite consisted of three servants and </dt><dd> A tutor, the licentiate Pedrillo, </dd><dt> Who several languages did understand, </dt><dd> But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow, </dd><dt> And rocking in his hammock, long'd for land,</dt></dl>oops, i'm now looking up things we already have!!!!! think i'm going to go and have a lie down lol

lilias

Think that 10a is Mathias in "The Bells" by Leopold Lewis.

lilias

12.b) “a slack-twisted slim-looking Maphrotite fool”?
This is Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native" and it's how the last woman he asked described Christian. Can't find a name for her.

kirsteenatom

hi lilias, it came up in Tess of the durbervilles for me - i wonder if he used it twice?
I'll see if i can find my source again and paste it here.

edited to say I found the reference you have I think:

Tis a sad thing for ye, Christian. How'st know the women won't hae
thee?"
"I've asked 'em."
"Sure I should never have thought you had the face. Well, and what did the
last one say to ye? Nothing that can't be got over, perhaps, after all?"
"'Get out of my sight, you slack-twisted, slim-looking maphrotight fool,'


which does seem right, but worried that it doesn't mention a particular woman - so will check out Tess again.

edited again. there is a 'slack twisted' fellow in Tess,but it doesn't seem to be the exact quotation, so I think you are right. it seems a bit inexact to say the last person who christian proposed to though! I had a quick read through and it doesn't seem to refer to any particular named woman.

Kirsteen