Word: summerson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bland, slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable females-Esther Summerson in Bleak House, or Mrs. Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit-are little more than ingenious cutouts, painted in brilliant hues of pathos and humor...