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An interesting mess with syphilis and cross-dressing. Grand uses three heroines to explore issues like marriage, outlets for womens abilities and sexual morality. Part of the messiness is because the novel ends up like a jigsaw puzzle with Grand juggling the different strands and partly its because Grand does that thing proto-feminist Victorian novels do where the established workings of the novel universe suddenly change to accommodate a less feminist ending.Evadne is something of a Dorothea Brooke character. A very serious, calm, clever, dangerously naïve girl who has spent her girlhood reading and thinking about gender relations without quite realising her conclusions run very much counter to those of her idolised father. She marries young, giving the matter little consideration, and discovers just in time to avoid consummating the marriage that her husband led a dissolute life and that she doesnt consider him good enough for her. This is something Grand has a real bee in her bonnet about. Women ought to make men behave by refusing to put up with them and should give up on the idea of reforming them or nobly suffering them. Its the usual idea really that women are the purer, less sexual sex, Grand just thinks women should take a more militant approach to the task of making men better. Evadne and her husband live together to keep up appearances and are kind of friends, though he really is of a lower moral order.Edith is a friend of Evadnes. She marries a dissolute man with syphilis. She doesnt know about the syphilis but she thinks hes ready for marriage now and everything will be lovely. It ends badly. Edith is the least substantial of the three main characters. Shes basically just there to be the sacrificial lamb.Angelica, another family friend of Evadnes, is one of the heavenly twins of the title. She and her brother are children for part of the book, being adorable, astonishingly intelligent delinquents. You know the drill. Angelica is the most intelligent and delinquent of the two and her brother conspires with her to allow her access to some of the experiences that would normally be reserved for her brother. This cant last forever. Frustrated and troubled by adult femininity she abruptly marries an indulgent older man, thinking it her best way to escape from her familys expectations of proper young ladies. Bored and unfulfilled, she takes to going out at night dressed as a boy, and strikes up an odd friendship with a mysterious tenor from the cathedral choir. The Tenor is in love with the real Angelica who he idealises from afar at cathedral services, while his real intimacy is with the Boy. When he finds out they are one, everything is ruined. Hes lost his ideal, because the real Angelica is a hoodlum, and now that the Boy is a Girl the friendship is dead. The tragedy is that gender conventions prevent him from properly liking someone he does actually like, and that Angelica cant fully express herself any other way. This tragic stuff is partly Grands point, but theres a lot of other stuff mixed up with it too and it all gets very melodramatic. On the one hand, Angelica kind of needs reforming and on the other I dont like the huge emphasis on her learning to be good from the Tenor who she has wronged.Both Angelica and Evadne end up being cared for by kind, indulgent husbands. The earlier emphasis on womens superior goodness changes into men helping frail women to be good. That was frustrating. This is a self-indulgent book, messy, as I said, but I found it very entertaining. You could certainly find a lot to say about the gender stuff in it, so its a shame its fallen out of the picture so much. Its an interesting picture of the convoluted connections produced by Victorian feminism.
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