Word: ffrench
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long time, I wished to confront Miss Ffrench. I no longer have that desire. If by any possibility I could come face to face with her, I should forego the pleasure; for I should certainly detect the mechanical apparatus of her existence. Detection would be death to her, and my conscience would then charge me with murder; for, though she is not life, Miss Ffrench is wonderfully life-like. - Vassar Miscellany...
...find fault with Mrs. Burnett for giving us such a character as Miss Ffrench; on the contrary, she deserves congratulation for the ingenuity evinced in its creation. It is, for the most part, consistent; she has breathed into the machinery a semblance of life, as I have indicated. In fact, Miss Ffrench stands out in literature a masterpiece of invention, - a made woman. Our only ground for complaint is that Mrs. Burnett would have us consider that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story...