Word: rawdon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Welldon '04, "Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne"-W. M. Thackeray...
This evening, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from Dickens and Thackeray. The program will include the scene between Esmond and the Prince, that between Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne, a passage from "Nicholas Nickleby," one from "The Book of Snobs," and Mr. Pickwick's Adventure with the Lady of the Yellow Curl Papers. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
...Mitchell, therefore, selects Becky Sharp as the central figure of his drama. From her life he picks out four strong "situations,"--the flight with Rawdon, the Waterloo ball, the midnight supper with Lord Steyne, and the last days at Pumpernickel,--and to the strongest of these, the third, he subordinates the rest, making each the subject...
...Papers," the passage in which the Pickwickians first meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...