![]() If you can centralize some awesome info for others to reference for free in perpetuity: please do so. This is an especially good time to leverage the sub's built-in wiki page. How can I recreate that sound from the comfort of my bathroom? In this thread we love feature-length deep dives, free lectures/classes, new content in a focused educational series, great blog posts and journals of break/fix solutions or implementations. This is the monthly post you get to drop big knowledge bombs in. Submitted by lazylittlelady to ayearofmiddlemarch Ģ023.03.18 12:01 Efficient_Ball712 How do i avoid relapses in the bathroom?Īlright, nerds. In the lengthy section about the state of the medical profession in Britain, there is a reference to “a recent legal decision.” This refers to the Apothecaries Act of 1815, the first attempt to regulate the medical profession in Britain.Saint-Simonians believed in a kind of proto-Socialist Utopia.Bichat is Marie François Xavier Bichat, a pioneering anatomist.Herschel is William Herschel, an astronomer.Jenner is Edward Jenner, a pioneer of vaccination (topical!).“Makdom and fairnesse” is Old Scots for form and beauty the quotation is taken from James I’s essay on Scots poetry.Gulliver refers to Gulliver’s Travels, one of the first major novels in English.I’ve never read it, but it was published by a publisher who I wrote about during my PhD, so I’ve added it to my list. Rasselas refers to a book by Samuel Johnson, who wrote the first dictionary.Public schools in the UK refer to fee-paying private schools.The joke is that he wrote a novel, Tom Jones, which was subtitled as a history, though it is fiction. The “great historian” and “Fielding” of chapter 15’s opening are the same person.When they part ways Rosamund and Lydgate have very different takes on their relationship: Rosamund thinks they’re a sure bet, while Lydgate is focused on his work and can’t afford to think about marriage. Then Mr Farebrother arrives - he’s a pleasant clergyman who is prone to gambling. Lydgate and the Vincys discuss the matter at dinner, and Rosamund entertains everyone with a song before they settle down to play cards. This is going to be a mostly political appointment, and Bulstrode has a lot of sway. Not thinking for a moment Lydgate might be potentially a witness to an unsolved murder in Europe, the residents of Middlemarch are mostly in a tizzy about the appointment of the hospital chaplain. Anyway, poor Lydgate swears off women for good and goes to England where we find him now. Lydgate believes she’s innocent, and wants to marry her, but before he gets the chance to ask her, she flees Paris! He follows her to Avignon where she confesses to killing her husband because she didn’t like being married, which is an objectively iconic way to turn down a marriage proposal even if she is a monster. I can’t imagine what that’s like! Just when things are going well in his career, he falls for a beautiful if not particularly talented actress, who may have potentially been involved in a teeny tiny marticide. In 1829 Middlemarch this is controversial. In Paris he begins to believe that medicine should be cheap and based on evidence. He becomes especially passionate about reforming the medical institution, so off he goes to Paris to see what he can learn there. He’s a huge reader though, and he’s naturally curious about everything, so he progresses well and he maintains his passion for learning new things to the present day. We learn that he’s a twenty-seven year old surgeon (which is why he’s known as “Mr” Lydgate rather than “Dr”) who was orphaned as a child and left so poor that his medical education came from apprenticeship rather than formal schooling. Not only do we learn that his first name is Tertius (latin for ‘third’ perhaps named after the scribe for Paul’s letters to the Romans), we also learn that he’s got a tragic and mysterious past. Happy Saturday, Middlemarchers! I'm posting this on behalf of our veteran, u/elainefromseinfield, who regrets her absence this weekend and is keen to share her summary and questions! Onwards we go into the depths of our characters!
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