Gondal saga Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...from his mossy bed as the authors approach. Further, when Charlotte had grown tired of the Islanders' Play (recorded by her in vol. 2, October 1829 ), it was Emily who took the lead, initiating the School Rebellion which looks forward to a central theme of Gondal. There is mutiny at the Palace of Instruction and the ringleaders are her characters, ‘little Johnny Lockhart’ and Princess Victoria ( see victoria, queen ). Eventually, Charlotte's hero, the Duke of Wellington, quells the rebellion with a single autocratic threat. The concept of a female...
epigraphs Reference library
Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad
...the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 . Watts points out that in addition to its obvious aptness as eulogy, ‘the epigraph may serve to emphasize the conservative implications of a text which describes the failure of an attempt to subvert the captain’s authority and to foment mutiny aboard the Narcissus . As traditional rule was restored, after turmoil, to “the ship of state”, so traditional order is restored, after turmoil, to the ship Narcissus’ ( 1988 : 133). Tales of Unrest: ‘Be it thy course to busy giddy minds I With foreign quarrels.’ Drawn from Henry...
