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...works at home, when you can go abroad as a missionary and impose your religion and culture on people unable to defend themselves? Before he leaves for the colonies, to subjugate as many indigenous people as he can, he exhorts Jane to join him, and claims her ‘for God’. But Jane sees through his religious zeal, his partriachial assumptions and his need to dominate...

...work of any sort. Related to this last point, it is conspicuously not the centrepiece of landed wealth – it is not standing in a place of eminence, embedded within its own estate and associated farms which would be visibly providing the income for the upkeep of the house. Carrying this thought a little further suggests forcibly that the wealth this palace is designed to...

...work, hardly begun till the Wednesday. Everywhere the cottages and the small children were dirty, for the languid mothers gave their strength to the loom; pious Dissenting women, perhaps, who took life patiently, and thought that salvation depended chiefly on predestination, and not at all on cleanliness. The gables of Dissenting chapels now made a visible sign of...