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2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/55.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_54_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 55 | chapter 55 | null | {"name": "Chapter 55", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-55", "summary": "Isabel wakes and remembers what Ralph said about the Gardencourt ghost. Now that she has suffered greatly, she can feel its presence. In the moment... |
He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that
if she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost
with which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled
the necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint
dawn, she knew that a spirit was standin... | 5,339 | Chapter 55 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-55 | Isabel wakes and remembers what Ralph said about the Gardencourt ghost. Now that she has suffered greatly, she can feel its presence. In the moment that Ralph dies, she sees a vision of him, kindly looking back at her. Ralph dies, with his mother by his side. For the first time, we see Mrs. Touchett truly moved - she i... | null | 327 | 1 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_1_to_2.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_0_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 1-2 | chapters 1-2 | null | {"name": "Chapters 1-2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-12", "summary": "One afternoon, Mr. Touchett and his son Ralph are entertaining Lord Warburton at tea. Mr. Touchett is infirm and remains in his chair... |
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There
are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some
people of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those
that I have in mind in beginning ... | 5,322 | Chapters 1-2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-12 | One afternoon, Mr. Touchett and his son Ralph are entertaining Lord Warburton at tea. Mr. Touchett is infirm and remains in his chair. He and Ralph are busy advising Lord Warburton to interest himself in some woman. Lord Warburton says that he is not interested in marrying until he meets a really interesting woman. Mr.... | The first chapter presents the scene upon which Isabel Archer will encounter her first new experience. It is a part of James' technique to place his main character in an unfamiliar setting and then to observe the behavior of this character. We discover that Isabel is a person who, according to Mrs. Touchett's telegram,... | 244 | 440 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_3_to_4.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_1_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 3-4 | chapters 3-4 | null | {"name": "Chapters 3-4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-34", "summary": "Isabel's aunt has several peculiarities. For example, she long ago recognized the fact that she and her husband did not desire the sa... |
Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her
behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a
noticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and
this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no
means without liberal motions, rarely s... | 5,579 | Chapters 3-4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-34 | Isabel's aunt has several peculiarities. For example, she long ago recognized the fact that she and her husband did not desire the same things in life; therefore, she decided to set up a house in Florence and pay wifely visits to her husband once a year. She also makes trips to America to keep in touch with some of her... | Chapter 3 fills in the background information and gives the reader more knowledge about Isabel. For example, in Isabel's first encounter with her aunt, we see that she was quite anxious to go to Europe, but she was just as anxious to retain her own freedom. She told Mrs. Touchett that it would not be possible to promis... | 205 | 223 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_2_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5", "summary": "Ralph Touchett had been educated in America and England. He was a small boy when his father came to England as a partner in a bank. Mr. To... |
Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his
mother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness.
Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted
that of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the
sweetness of filial dependence. His father, ... | 4,312 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5 | Ralph Touchett had been educated in America and England. He was a small boy when his father came to England as a partner in a bank. Mr. Touchett has retained all of his American qualities, but Ralph grew up transformed into an Englishman. He has discovered that he is dying and has adjusted to this fact. He knows that h... | In the first part of this chapter, we find out that Mr. Touchett came to England some time ago, but has retained most of his American sympathies. He has, however, gotten along famously with the British. Ralph is, however, considerably less American than the father. As so often happens in a James novel, a person such as... | 251 | 299 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_6_to_7.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_3_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 6-7 | chapters 6-7 | null | {"name": "Chapters 6-7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-67", "summary": "Isabel Archer is a person \"of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active.\" She also possesses a fine perception and cares... |
Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was
remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind
than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger
perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was
tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that... | 6,812 | Chapters 6-7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-67 | Isabel Archer is a person "of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active." She also possesses a fine perception and cares very much for knowledge. She is also determined to see the world as a place of brightness and free expansion, but "sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day... | One of James' techniques is to constantly develop his character by revealing additional facts about the character or by placing the character in a new situation. At the beginning of Chapter 6, James writes about Isabel's remarkably active imagination. She has a large perception and she cares for so many important thing... | 317 | 432 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_8_to_9.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 8-9 | chapters 8-9 | null | {"name": "Chapters 8-9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-89", "summary": "Since Lord Warburton has invited Isabel to come to see his house, Isabel questions her uncle about him. From Ralph, she has heard tha... |
As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to
express a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very
curious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she
would bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness
to attend the ladies if his father should... | 4,495 | Chapters 8-9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-89 | Since Lord Warburton has invited Isabel to come to see his house, Isabel questions her uncle about him. From Ralph, she has heard that he is a man of very high social position and of great wealth. He is greatly admired and is somewhat of a radical. After she has found out a great deal about him, Isabel mentions that sh... | Chapter 8 is devoted to developing the character of Lord Warburton, who comes to represent the ideal Englishman. He is a man of great wealth, position, and repute. He is also a man of perfect taste but rather liberal and sincere in his beliefs. The reader should also remember that later in the novel Gilbert Osmond thin... | 245 | 222 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_10_to_12.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_5_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 10-12 | chapters 10-12 | null | {"name": "Chapters 10-12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1012", "summary": "After returning from her visit to Lord Warburton's, Isabel receives a letter from Henrietta Stackpole, who has come to Europe to ... |
The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend
Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction
the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered
Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. "Here I am, my lovely
friend," Miss Stackpole wrote... | 10,030 | Chapters 10-12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1012 | After returning from her visit to Lord Warburton's, Isabel receives a letter from Henrietta Stackpole, who has come to Europe to do a series of articles on European life and wants to meet people. Isabel mentions the letter to her uncle, who immediately extends Henrietta an invitation. Ralph accompanies Isabel to meet H... | Chapter 10 is devoted to establishing the character of Henrietta Stackpole, who, as the name suggests, is a rather formidable person. James uses her as a confidante and also as a contrast to Isabel. We must see that Isabel is not so liberal as are some of her fellow Americans. We also see, by comparison, that Isabel ha... | 443 | 477 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_6_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-13", "summary": "Wondering whether she might be a cold, hard, priggish person, Isabel decides to tell her uncle about Lord Warburton's proposal. Mr. Touc... |
It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire
whatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken
place. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,
more human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a
more attractive light than either her a... | 5,166 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-13 | Wondering whether she might be a cold, hard, priggish person, Isabel decides to tell her uncle about Lord Warburton's proposal. Mr. Touchett's first question is whether she accepted. Upon learning that she plans to decline Lord Warburton's offer, he tells her that he has known about Lord Warburton's intentions because ... | The beginning of this chapter illustrates another of James' techniques. In the last chapter, Isabel received a proposal. This chapter devotes itself in part to a discussion of that event, thereby illustrating James' technique of recording an event and then exploring its implications. In this case, Isabel chooses Mr. To... | 240 | 216 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_7_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-14", "summary": "Before Isabel leaves for London, she receives another visit from Lord Warburton. Henrietta Stackpole is delighted to meet a real English... |
Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as
we have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to
Gardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him.
For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had
written, very briefly, to say h... | 3,189 | Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-14 | Before Isabel leaves for London, she receives another visit from Lord Warburton. Henrietta Stackpole is delighted to meet a real English lord and interrogates him about all aspects of his personal life. As soon as he can, he escapes from Henrietta and approaches Isabel. He questions Isabel about her refusal. She tries ... | James, in his typical fashion, continues to examine a situation. Again, we return to the subject of Isabel's refusal of Lord Warburton's proposal. By the end of this chapter, James will have explored almost all possibilities. To review his technique: James has the proposal made; then we hear Isabel's first reaction. Ne... | 230 | 207 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_15_to_16.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_8_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 15-16 | chapters 15-16 | null | {"name": "Chapters 15-16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1516", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett questions the propriety of Isabel's going to London with Henrietta and Ralph. But she implies that a girl who has r... |
It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London
under Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on
the plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole
would be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of
the Interviewer was to take the party ... | 9,109 | Chapters 15-16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1516 | Mrs. Touchett questions the propriety of Isabel's going to London with Henrietta and Ralph. But she implies that a girl who has refused a great proposal can perhaps afford to be unconventional. In London, Ralph introduces Isabel and Henrietta to an old acquaintance, Mr. Bantling, who finds Henrietta amusing and delight... | In this chapter James continues to plumb the depths pertaining to Isabel's reasons for refusing Lord Warburton. Some readers think that James goes too -- that enough has been said about the subject. However, James' technique is to continue to refine any situation. Ralph's conversation with Isabel is more disinterested ... | 318 | 315 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_17_to_18.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_9_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 17-18 | chapters 17-18 | null | {"name": "Chapters 17-18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1718", "summary": "Shortly after Caspar Goodwood's visit, Henrietta questions Isabel about the interview, only to be told that Goodwood is returning... |
She was not praying; she was trembling--trembling all over. Vibration
was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found
herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put
on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to
resist her excitement, and the attitud... | 7,688 | Chapters 17-18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1718 | Shortly after Caspar Goodwood's visit, Henrietta questions Isabel about the interview, only to be told that Goodwood is returning to America without having received any satisfaction from Isabel. Henrietta fears that Isabel is losing her sense of values and attempts to advise Isabel about her conduct. Isabel is forced t... | Part of Isabel's greatness is that she can see the best in most people. Thus, she remains on good terms with Henrietta Stackpole even when Henrietta does such things as arrange a meeting between Isabel and Caspar Goodwood. She does have to tell Henrietta not to interfere anymore. Henrietta's intervention, however, allo... | 440 | 460 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_19_to_20.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 19-20 | chapters 19-20 | null | {"name": "Chapters 19-20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1920", "summary": "Isabel's friendship for Madame Merle ripens very quickly during the days of Mr. Touchett's illness. She finds herself saying thin... |
As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown
much together during the illness of their host, so that if they had
not become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners.
Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened
to please each other. It is perhaps too mu... | 12,143 | Chapters 19-20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1920 | Isabel's friendship for Madame Merle ripens very quickly during the days of Mr. Touchett's illness. She finds herself saying things to this lady more candidly than she has ever spoken to others. There was no doubt Madame Merle "had great merits -- she was charming, sympathetic, intelligent, cultivated. More than this .... | Chapter 19 is devoted to picturing Madame Merle. The reader must always keep in mind that Madame Merle is one of the most accomplished women in the world. It would, of course, take a woman as clever and as perfect as Madame Merle to deceive Isabel. Even here though, we are given a few insights into Madame Merle's true ... | 373 | 320 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-21", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett, true to her nature, leaves Paris on the day that she had previously set for her departure. Accompanied by Isabel, she sto... |
Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her
departure and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.
She interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo,
on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull,
bright winter beneath a slow-moving whit... | 2,328 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-21 | Mrs. Touchett, true to her nature, leaves Paris on the day that she had previously set for her departure. Accompanied by Isabel, she stops by the Mediterranean to see her son. Isabel takes the first available opportunity to ask Ralph if he knew that Mr. Touchett planned to leave her so much money. He reveals that he di... | With each chapter, Ralph is developing more and more into Isabel's private confidant. She turns to him to express delicately her most private thoughts. But she never exceeds the bounds of propriety. In this chapter, it becomes quite evident that Ralph thinks that Isabel will use her new wealth to develop her capacity t... | 127 | 64 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_22_to_23.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 22-23 | chapters 22-23 | null | {"name": "Chapters 22-23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2223", "summary": "About six months after Mr. Touchett's death, a gentleman named Gilbert Osmond is seated in his drawing room with two sisters from... |
On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr.
Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a
painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an
ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate
of Florence. The villa was a long, rather blank... | 8,787 | Chapters 22-23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2223 | About six months after Mr. Touchett's death, a gentleman named Gilbert Osmond is seated in his drawing room with two sisters from a convent and his young fifteen-year-old daughter, Pansy. The nuns have just brought Pansy from the convent where she had been in school for a long time. Gilbert Osmond is expressing his sat... | Chapter 22 is an abrupt shift from Isabel to a new character. We meet for the first time Gilbert Osmond and his daughter Pansy. Contrary to the typical James practice, the author here allows the reader to get an inside view of one of the characters before the main character comes to that insight. In other words, after ... | 531 | 335 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_24_to_25.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_13_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 24-25 | chapters 24-25 | null | {"name": "Chapters 24-25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425", "summary": "Isabel decides that no harm can come to her from a simple social visit to Gilbert Osmond's house. There, she meets his sister the... |
It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to
her from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing
could have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in
the full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the
Roman Gate, beneath the enormous blan... | 6,891 | Chapters 24-25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425 | Isabel decides that no harm can come to her from a simple social visit to Gilbert Osmond's house. There, she meets his sister the Countess Gemini and his daughter Pansy. Osmond is very gracious and discusses his collection of art objects and his daughter with quiet admiration. Alone with Osmond, Isabel is asked her opi... | The reader observes in these chapters how Isabel is slowly being trapped and deceived by the machinations of Osmond and Madame Merle. His discriminating taste and exquisite collection of art objects make Isabel think that Osmond is a superior person. "He resembled no one she had ever seen: most of the people she knew m... | 216 | 305 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_26_to_28.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_14_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 26-28 | chapters 26-28 | null | {"name": "Chapters 26-28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2628", "summary": "Gilbert Osmond calls so often at Mrs. Touchett's home that she becomes suspicious. She asks Madame Merle directly if Osmond is in... |
Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo
Crescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett
and Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of
these ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he
called five times, and compared it with another ... | 10,566 | Chapters 26-28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2628 | Gilbert Osmond calls so often at Mrs. Touchett's home that she becomes suspicious. She asks Madame Merle directly if Osmond is interested in Isabel. Madame Merle, of course, denies that Osmond is interested in Isabel but tells Mrs. Touchett that she will discreetly inquire of his intentions. She warns Mrs. Touchett not... | In her interview with Madame Merle, Mrs. Touchett comes to the direct center of the problem in saying that Osmond wants to marry Isabel for money. She is so direct that Madame Merle must be very careful to keep Mrs. Touchett from interfering. She even suggests that Isabel would make a good "stepmother" for Pansy so as ... | 355 | 227 |
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Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly
qualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal
merits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of
that gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond
spent a portion of each day with Isabe... | 7,680 | Chapters 29-31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2931 | Shortly after Lord Warburton leaves, Isabel receives a note from her aunt inviting her for a visit to another part of Italy. Isabel accepts and bids Osmond good-bye. Osmond tells her that he approves of traveling and would do so himself if he had her means. Before she leaves, he tells her that he finds himself in love ... | Chapter 29 presents another development in Isabel's relationship with Gilbert Osmond. She receives his declaration of love with a certain degree of pleasure. When we compare her reaction to his love with her reaction to the love of Goodwood or Lord Warburton, we realize immediately that Isabel is gratified to hear the ... | 293 | 354 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_32_to_35.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_16_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 32-35 | chapters 32-35 | null | {"name": "Chapters 32-35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-3235", "summary": "As soon as Caspar Goodwood hears that Isabel is engaged, he comes straight to Florence to see her. Isabel receives him in her aun... |
It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood
at the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any
of the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,
but to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,
and she was not fond of scenes.... | 10,829 | Chapters 32-35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-3235 | As soon as Caspar Goodwood hears that Isabel is engaged, he comes straight to Florence to see her. Isabel receives him in her aunt's house. He tells her frankly that he is disappointed and is selfish enough to wish her anything except marriage to another man. She wants to know if he told Henrietta. He tells her that He... | These chapters, along with the others just preceding, show James' technique again. He has an event occur -- this time it is Isabel's engagement to Gilbert Osmond. Then, he presents as many views of this subject as he can. We begin by observing Caspar Goodwood's bitter reactions. Then, we are acquainted with the reactio... | 705 | 375 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_36_to_38.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_17_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 36-38 | chapters 36-38 | null | {"name": "Chapters 36-38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-3638", "summary": "Some four years later, young Edward Rosier rings at Madame Merle's apartment. He has come to tell Madame Merle of his love for Pa... |
One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of
pleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third
floor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame
Merle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face
and a lady's maid's manner, ushered him i... | 10,523 | Chapters 36-38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-3638 | Some four years later, young Edward Rosier rings at Madame Merle's apartment. He has come to tell Madame Merle of his love for Pansy Osmond and his fear that Mr. Osmond does not think highly of him. He wonders if Madame Merle can intercede in his behalf. Madame Merle explains to him that Pansy's fate lies almost totall... | There is a sudden advance in time with Chapter 36. Approximately four years have elapsed. The reader is informed indirectly that Isabel and her husband do not get along. Madame Merle speaks of them as always being in opposition to each other. Isabel says several times that her husband does nothing to accommodate her. S... | 402 | 275 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_18_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 39 | chapter 39 | null | {"name": "Chapter 39", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-39", "summary": "When it came time for Isabel to marry, there had been a very quiet service with only her aunt and cousin invited. The Countess Gemini an... |
It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett
should have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done
before that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly
prove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we
know, and after this had held his ... | 4,413 | Chapter 39 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-39 | When it came time for Isabel to marry, there had been a very quiet service with only her aunt and cousin invited. The Countess Gemini and Pansy Osmond were the only other people present. Henrietta let it be known that Isabel had taken a step that put a barrier between them. Immediately after the marriage Osmond attempt... | James returns to Isabel's marriage and we find that her marrying Osmond has affected her relations with old friends. Furthermore, we are informed that Osmond wants Isabel to change and conform to all of his ways of thinking. Thus, since he does not like Henrietta, he thinks that Isabel should give up her friend. But Is... | 298 | 245 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_40_to_41.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_19_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 40-41 | chapters 40-41 | null | {"name": "Chapters 40-41", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4041", "summary": "Since her marriage Madame Merle comes only seldom to Isabel's house. She has candidly explained that, since she had known Osmond ... |
Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady
having indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had
spent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a
winter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and
gave countenance to the idea that for the... | 7,522 | Chapters 40-41 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4041 | Since her marriage Madame Merle comes only seldom to Isabel's house. She has candidly explained that, since she had known Osmond before Isabel married him, she thought it best not to come too often. About a month after Lord Warburton's arrival, Isabel returns from a ride with Pansy to discover Madame Merle in private c... | There is a bit of irony working here. Isabel had herself rejected Lord Warburton in favor of Osmond. Now Osmond is showing how mean he is by demanding that Isabel use her influence with her former suitor in order to get him to marry Pansy. That both Madame Merle and Osmond desire this marriage so strongly and that Isab... | 305 | 143 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_20_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 42 | chapter 42 | null | {"name": "Chapter 42", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-42", "summary": "Osmond's demand upon Isabel causes her to review her life. She wonders if Lord Warburton is in fact interested in Pansy because he still... |
She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before
her and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them
that suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust
herself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and
closed her eyes; and for a long ti... | 5,362 | Chapter 42 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-42 | Osmond's demand upon Isabel causes her to review her life. She wonders if Lord Warburton is in fact interested in Pansy because he still harbors a love for her. This thought leads her to re-examine her marriage with Osmond. As with his comments about Lord Warburton, everything he touches turns to something ugly and unp... | This very important chapter presents an analysis of Isabel's relationship with her husband. Previous chapters have shown Isabel engaged in active matters with Osmond, and now James presents a close examination of the more intimate relationship. Osmond married Isabel because she wits clever, witty, and charming and beca... | 310 | 141 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_21_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 43 | chapter 43 | null | {"name": "Chapter 43", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-43", "summary": "At a dance party, Rosier approaches Isabel and asks about Pansy. He learns that Osmond has forbidden Pansy to associate or dance with hi... |
Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which
Osmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as
ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had
not extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on
those of love. If she was biding her time o... | 3,816 | Chapter 43 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-43 | At a dance party, Rosier approaches Isabel and asks about Pansy. He learns that Osmond has forbidden Pansy to associate or dance with him. Isabel has to send him away when she sees Pansy coming. Lord Warburton comes to Isabel and prefers to talk with her rather than to dance. She reminds him that some ten days ago he h... | Apparently Isabel is not trying to induce Lord Warburton to marry Pansy. Her motives, however, are the best. She knows that Such a marriage would please no one except Osmond and, moreover, she knows that it would make Pansy and Rosier very unhappy. The intrinsic happiness of Pansy is more important than the displeasure... | 182 | 79 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_22_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 44 | chapter 44 | null | {"name": "Chapter 44", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-44", "summary": "The Countess Gemini has not been a welcome visitor in her brother's home. But she has received an invitation and is preparing for a visi... |
The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,
to extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she
struggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an
unaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,
where he enjoyed such consideration as mi... | 5,000 | Chapter 44 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-44 | The Countess Gemini has not been a welcome visitor in her brother's home. But she has received an invitation and is preparing for a visit when she receives a call from Henrietta Stackpole. Henrietta asks the Countess for some information about Isabel, and explains that Osmond doesn't like her. The Countess has to admit... | The concern Isabel's friends have for her attests to her good nature and fine qualities. Osmond's dislike of these same people brings out his basic ill nature. James is slowly bringing most of the main characters together in Rome for a final round of confrontations. | 136 | 45 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_45_to_46.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_23_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 45-46 | chapters 45-46 | null | {"name": "Chapters 45-46", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4546", "summary": "Isabel knows that her visits with Ralph are displeasing to her husband. \"He wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew p... |
I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be
displeased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge
was very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day
after she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his
sincerity; and at this moment, as at others, ... | 7,574 | Chapters 45-46 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4546 | Isabel knows that her visits with Ralph are displeasing to her husband. "He wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well that Ralph was an apostle of freedom." Yet Isabel knows that she has not yet directly opposed her husband; nor has he yet "formally forbidden her to call upon Ralph." Isabel is t... | James is building up his contrast between Isabel and Osmond. It becomes a perpetual battle of nerves between them. When he accuses Isabel of preventing the marriage, we must note that he is partially right. Isabel did let Lord Warburton know that Pansy did not love him, and she did suggest to Ralph that Lord Warburton ... | 433 | 241 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_47_to_48.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_24_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 47-48 | chapters 47-48 | null | {"name": "Chapters 47-48", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4748", "summary": "Henrietta arrives in Rome and Isabel must get her a room in a hotel because Osmond objects to Henrietta so strongly. But at last ... |
It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had
come to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's
departure. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some
importance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame
Merle, who had gone to Naples to stay... | 10,641 | Chapters 47-48 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4748 | Henrietta arrives in Rome and Isabel must get her a room in a hotel because Osmond objects to Henrietta so strongly. But at last Isabel can admit to someone how miserable she is. Henrietta wants Isabel to leave Osmond, but Isabel explains that she "can't publish" her mistake before the entire world. Caspar Goodwood bec... | The arrival of her old friend, Henrietta, allows Isabel to openly express her thoughts about her mistake. But we see here that Isabel has too much pride to announce to the world that she has made a mistake, thus preparing us again for Isabel's later return to her husband in spite of her dislike of him. Henrietta's conc... | 236 | 164 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_49_to_51.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_25_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 49-51 | chapters 49-51 | null | {"name": "Chapters 49-51", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4951", "summary": "Madame Merle returns to Rome a short time after Lord Warburton's departure. She immediately questions Isabel about Lord Warburton... |
Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the
evening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,
and Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.
Things had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,
and to appreciate which we must glan... | 12,713 | Chapters 49-51 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-4951 | Madame Merle returns to Rome a short time after Lord Warburton's departure. She immediately questions Isabel about Lord Warburton's departure, and threatens to ask Pansy what Isabel said to her. Suddenly Isabel is aware that Madame Merle "was a powerful agent in her destiny." Her interest, Isabel realized, was the same... | Madame Merle had said earlier that she had high ambitions. To fulfill these, it is necessary for her daughter Pansy to make a great marriage. Consequently, when Lord Warburton leaves without proposing, Madame Merle drops her pose for a while and shows her true nature to Isabel. But Isabel is so astounded by Madame Merl... | 401 | 297 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_26_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 52 | chapter 52 | null | {"name": "Chapter 52", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-52", "summary": "Before leaving for England, Isabel makes one visit to see Pansy. At the convent she meets Madame Merle, who has just been with Pansy. Sh... |
There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the
Countess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with
her maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought
(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;
from her she couldn't turn away. She had n... | 3,730 | Chapter 52 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-52 | Before leaving for England, Isabel makes one visit to see Pansy. At the convent she meets Madame Merle, who has just been with Pansy. She tries to explain her reasons, but Isabel is not interested. Pansy is changed. She has had enough of the convent and would like to come out. She now knows that she must obey her fathe... | After the interview with Pansy, Isabel knows that Pansy is now more her daughter than she is Madame Merle's. It is rather pathetic, that Pansy dislikes her true mother and is so attached to her stepmother. Knowing Pansy's plight, Isabel promises to come back to help the girl. This chapter ends Madame Merle's associatio... | 149 | 77 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_53_to_54.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_27_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 53-54 | chapters 53-54 | null | {"name": "Chapters 53-54", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-5354", "summary": "When Isabel arrives in London, Henrietta and Mr. Bantling are there to meet her. As soon as the two ladies are alone Henrietta as... |
It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other
circumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel
descended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the
arms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole.
She had telegraphed to her friend from Turin... | 6,454 | Chapters 53-54 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-5354 | When Isabel arrives in London, Henrietta and Mr. Bantling are there to meet her. As soon as the two ladies are alone Henrietta asks if Osmond made a scene about Isabel's departure. Isabel replies that it wouldn't be called a scene. Henrietta objects to Isabel's promising Pansy to return and hopes that Isabel will recon... | Isabel returns at the end of the novel to the place that had been her starting point. Here she will gain the strength to do what she considers to be the right thing. Most important to her is to reveal everything as openly as she can to Ralph. She now knows fully how deeply he has loved her and how generous and forgivi... | 263 | 124 |
2,833 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/55.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_28_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 55 | chapter 55 | null | {"name": "Chapter 55", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-55", "summary": "Ralph had told Isabel long ago that if she wanted to see the ghosts in Gardencourt, she must suffer greatly. During the night she senses... |
He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that
if she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost
with which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled
the necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint
dawn, she knew that a spirit was standin... | 5,339 | Chapter 55 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapter-55 | Ralph had told Isabel long ago that if she wanted to see the ghosts in Gardencourt, she must suffer greatly. During the night she senses the presence of something and upon leaving her room, learns that Ralph has just died. Isabel remains at Gardencourt for a while so as to comfort her aunt and to recover her own streng... | Why Isabel decides to return to Gilbert Osmond must be finally determined by each individual reader. There could be many reasons. Isabel is proud, and in her pride she cannot stand to admit her mistake to the entire world. As she told Henrietta, she cannot publish her error for the whole world to see. Furthermore, Isab... | 213 | 151 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_1_to_3.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_0_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 1-3 | chapters 1-3 | null | {"name": "Chapters 1-3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section1/", "summary": "It is teatime at Gardencourt, an old English country manor built during the reign of Edward VI and now owned by an old American banker. The old man now sits on the lawn holding... |
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There
are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some
people of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those
that I have in mind in beginning ... | 8,371 | Chapters 1-3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section1/ | It is teatime at Gardencourt, an old English country manor built during the reign of Edward VI and now owned by an old American banker. The old man now sits on the lawn holding a large teacup; his sickly son and a young Englishman stroll nearby, stopping occasionally to make sure that he is comfortable. The old man tel... | The opening sentence of Portrait of a Lady may not be the most exciting in all of literature , but the novel's opening perfectly prepares the reader for the development of the novel's main themes. The main theme of Portrait of a Lady is the conflict between individualism and social custom. The novel begins with the ult... | 729 | 540 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_4_to_7.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_1_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 4-7 | chapters 4-7 | null | {"name": "Chapters 4-7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section2/", "summary": "Of Isabel's three sisters, she was always considered the intellectual. Edith was the prettiest, and Lillian was the most sensible. Lillian is now married to a lawyer in New Yor... |
Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought
the most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian
was the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the "intellectual"
superior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an
officer of the United States Engineers, and... | 13,652 | Chapters 4-7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section2/ | Of Isabel's three sisters, she was always considered the intellectual. Edith was the prettiest, and Lillian was the most sensible. Lillian is now married to a lawyer in New York and considers it her duty to look after Isabel. Her husband, Edmund, disapproves of Isabel--when Lillian says that her trip to Europe will giv... | The flashback that opens Chapter 4 is the first time in the novel that Isabel's perspective becomes the center of the novel. Isabel's long rumination about her life and her desire to travel seems fairly natural--these are the things an intelligent girl in her situation would be likely to consider before leaving on a lo... | 1,011 | 732 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_8_to_11.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_2_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 8-11 | chapters 8-11 | null | {"name": "Chapters 8-11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section3/", "summary": "Lord Warburton is quite taken with Isabel, and he convinces Mrs. Touchett to grant her permission for the young woman to pay a visit to Lockleigh, his manor house. Here, he te... |
As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to
express a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very
curious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she
would bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness
to attend the ladies if his father should... | 10,718 | Chapters 8-11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section3/ | Lord Warburton is quite taken with Isabel, and he convinces Mrs. Touchett to grant her permission for the young woman to pay a visit to Lockleigh, his manor house. Here, he tells Isabel something of his family history, and they discuss English and American politics. Isabel realizes that Warburton does not think much of... | The first part of this section focuses on Isabel's developing relationship with Lord Warburton, the aristocratic lord who uses his power to advocate anti- aristocratic political reform. Warburton's political leanings lead to one of the novel's brief, secondary explorations of the theme of social class, as Warburton adv... | 896 | 533 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_12_to_15.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_3_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 12-15 | chapters 12-15 | null | {"name": "Chapters 12-15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section4/", "summary": "Lord Warburton approaches, and Isabel can tell at once that he has come to declare his feelings for her. She is deeply confused by this, as she has always considered men sole... |
She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of
welcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her
coolness.
"They told me you were out here," said Lord Warburton; "and as there
was no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I
came out with no more ado... | 17,281 | Chapters 12-15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section4/ | Lord Warburton approaches, and Isabel can tell at once that he has come to declare his feelings for her. She is deeply confused by this, as she has always considered men solely for their moral qualities and never for their positions of power and influence; she has never met a man as aristocratic as Warburton and worrie... | Twelve chapters into the novel, Isabel has already faced two marriage proposals, one from the quintessentially American Caspar Goodwood, and one from the quintessentially English Lord Warburton. As Henrietta points out to Ralph, Isabel's romantic crisis with Warburton signifies the extent to which her American ideas an... | 870 | 329 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_16_to_19.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 16-19 | chapters 16-19 | null | {"name": "Chapters 16-19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section5/", "summary": "Isabel's decision to forbid Ralph from accompanying her to the hotel was not due to a desire to humiliate him, but rather to a realization that she has been taxing his streng... |
She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it
simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate
quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl
whom extravagance of aid places in an attitude that she ends by finding
"affected" had made her decide that... | 19,073 | Chapters 16-19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section5/ | Isabel's decision to forbid Ralph from accompanying her to the hotel was not due to a desire to humiliate him, but rather to a realization that she has been taxing his strength by taking up so much of his time since they left for London. She also realizes that she has had very little time to herself, and she looks forw... | This section involves three important narrative events: Isabel's second rejection of Caspar Goodwood, the introduction of Madame Merle, and the death of Mr. Touchett, which unexpectedly brings Isabel a fortune. The scene with Caspar is interesting for two reasons. First, it reveals what happened in the conversation Isa... | 1,013 | 761 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_20_to_24.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_5_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 20-24 | chapters 20-24 | null | {"name": "Chapters 20-24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section6/", "summary": "Not long after Mr. Touchett's death, Madame Merle arrives at the Touchetts' London home and discovers that the family is preparing to sell it. Mrs. Touchett tells Madame Merl... |
Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to
the house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she
observed, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat,
wooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in white paint
the words--"This noble freehold mansion t... | 20,822 | Chapters 20-24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section6/ | Not long after Mr. Touchett's death, Madame Merle arrives at the Touchetts' London home and discovers that the family is preparing to sell it. Mrs. Touchett tells Madame Merle how happy she is that her husband has left her financially secure; Merle is extremely jealous, though she keeps her feelings guarded. When she l... | This section initiates a new phase of the novel, which centers on Isabel's wealth and Merle's scheme to marry her to Gilbert Osmond. This scheme becomes more and more obvious to the reader throughout this section, just as it remains entirely opaque to Isabel, who believes that Merle is her friend and that Osmond is the... | 821 | 620 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_25_to_27.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_6_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 25-27 | chapters 25-27 | null | {"name": "Chapters 25-27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section7/", "summary": "As Osmond talks to Isabel, the Countess Gemini tells Madame Merle in hushed tones that she does not agree with her scheme to manipulate Isabel into marrying her brother. She ... |
While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after
we cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,
breaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.
They were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude
especially marked on the part of the C... | 10,474 | Chapters 25-27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section7/ | As Osmond talks to Isabel, the Countess Gemini tells Madame Merle in hushed tones that she does not agree with her scheme to manipulate Isabel into marrying her brother. She threatens to disrupt the plan, but Merle intimidates her by noting that she, Isabel, and Osmond all have stronger wills than the Countess. But the... | The very confusing conversation between Merle and Osmond at the party in Chapter 26 underscores the very mysterious connection between them; at this point, the reader is left to flounder, assuming that all will be explained as the novel progresses. The answer, of course, is that Merle and Osmond have been lovers, and M... | 545 | 346 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_28_to_31.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_7_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 28-31 | chapters 28-31 | null | {"name": "Chapters 28-31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section8/", "summary": "Lord Warburton still loves Isabel, and Isabel is just as obviously taken with Gilbert Osmond. It hurts Warburton to see them together; one night at the opera, he hurries away... |
On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his
friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they
had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying
them a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when
he had obtained his admittance--it was one o... | 9,698 | Chapters 28-31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section8/ | Lord Warburton still loves Isabel, and Isabel is just as obviously taken with Gilbert Osmond. It hurts Warburton to see them together; one night at the opera, he hurries away after seeing them seated next to one another. On his way out, he sees Ralph, who also seems miserable. The next day, Warburton tells Isabel that ... | With this section, James begins Volume II of Portrait of a Lady. By the time Warburton sees Isabel and Osmond together at the opera, Osmond's seduction of Isabel is nearly complete. Though Madame Merle is the primary agent enabling Isabel to fall in love with Osmond, Osmond is also forced to play his role, and he does ... | 765 | 858 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_32_to_36.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_8_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 32-36 | chapters 32-36 | null | {"name": "Chapters 32-36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section9/", "summary": "Some time passes; when we rejoin Isabel's life, she is waiting anxiously for Caspar Goodwood to arrive, dreading the scene she believes will ensue. Goodwood enters and tells ... |
It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood
at the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any
of the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,
but to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,
and she was not fond of scenes.... | 13,905 | Chapters 32-36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section9/ | Some time passes; when we rejoin Isabel's life, she is waiting anxiously for Caspar Goodwood to arrive, dreading the scene she believes will ensue. Goodwood enters and tells Isabel that he has received her letter informing him of her decision to marry Gilbert Osmond. Isabel says that she has told no one but him and Mad... | This section begins with the news of Isabel's engagement to Osmond, an event that James chooses not to narrate. It ends after Isabel has been married for three years--years James also skips over, after skipping over the wedding and the birth and death of Isabel's son. James's elliptical technique is in full swing throu... | 862 | 837 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_37_to_40.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_9_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 37-40 | chapters 37-40 | null | {"name": "Chapters 37-40", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section10/", "summary": "Rosier wanders through the Osmonds' palazzo, searching for Pansy. He encounters Gilbert Osmond, who insultingly refuses to shake his hand, instead offering him only two fing... |
Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a
concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here
Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place
to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about
the fire. The room was flushed with subdued,... | 16,482 | Chapters 37-40 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section10/ | Rosier wanders through the Osmonds' palazzo, searching for Pansy. He encounters Gilbert Osmond, who insultingly refuses to shake his hand, instead offering him only two fingers to grasp. They discuss Osmond's art collection, and when Rosier asks whether he would like to sell anything, Osmond replies that there is nothi... | A great deal of this section is devoted to the exploration of subtle social maneuvering in the parlors and drawing rooms of upper-class parties. This is a subtle, sophisticated world in which seemingly insignificant glances, gestures, and comments can take on a world of significance--when Rosier speaks to Osmond in Cha... | 1,002 | 713 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_41_to_44.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 41-44 | chapters 41-44 | null | {"name": "Chapters 41-44", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section11/", "summary": "Isabel sits in the drawing room listening to Pansy and Lord Warburton converse; she is pleased by the way Warburton treats her stepdaughter, noting that he speaks to her as ... |
Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming
very late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had
spent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had
been sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged
his books and which he called his stu... | 17,074 | Chapters 41-44 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section11/ | Isabel sits in the drawing room listening to Pansy and Lord Warburton converse; she is pleased by the way Warburton treats her stepdaughter, noting that he speaks to her as an equal. She wonders briefly what Pansy will think about her father and Madame Merle's dismissal of Rosier, but she decides that Pansy is so passi... | After having been suspended for four years and a great many chapters, Isabel's perspective finally makes a complete return in Chapter 41. In Chapters 41 and forty-two, as Isabel talks to Osmond about Warburton's interest in Pansy and then thinks deeply about her strained relationship with Osmond, we finally see Isabel'... | 852 | 608 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_45_to_48.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 45-48 | chapters 45-48 | null | {"name": "Chapters 45-48", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section12/", "summary": "Osmond is angry with Isabel for spending so much time with Ralph; Isabel knows that Osmond wants to deny her any freedom of thought, and he knows that Ralph encourages her f... |
I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be
displeased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge
was very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day
after she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his
sincerity; and at this moment, as at others, ... | 18,214 | Chapters 45-48 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section12/ | Osmond is angry with Isabel for spending so much time with Ralph; Isabel knows that Osmond wants to deny her any freedom of thought, and he knows that Ralph encourages her freedom. Isabel continues to see Ralph, who is clearly dying; but she tries to limit the time she spends with him to avoid conflict with her husband... | In this section, all of the people who love Isabel the most--Caspar, Ralph, and Henrietta--have come to Rome and reentered her life, and as a result, this section is dominated by a new kind of tension in Isabel's life. On the one hand, she is happy to have her friends close at hand; on the other, being around people wh... | 1,044 | 413 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_49_to_51.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 49-51 | chapters 49-51 | null | {"name": "Chapters 49-51", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section13/", "summary": "When Madame Merle confronts Isabel about her role in Lord Warburton's departure from Rome, Isabel is shocked by Merle's presumptuousness--she sounds as though she is speakin... |
Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the
evening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,
and Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.
Things had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,
and to appreciate which we must glan... | 12,713 | Chapters 49-51 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section13/ | When Madame Merle confronts Isabel about her role in Lord Warburton's departure from Rome, Isabel is shocked by Merle's presumptuousness--she sounds as though she is speaking as Osmond's representative, and not merely as a distant acquaintance of the family. Propriety would dictate that the entire incident is none of M... | These chapters largely suspend the great problem at hand in Isabel's life--how to handle the conflict between Pansy's desire to marry Rosier and Osmond's resistance to that idea--and focus instead on unraveling the long mystery of the relationship between Madame Merle and Osmond. The reader has long understood that Mer... | 955 | 617 |
2,833 | true | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_52_to_55.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_13_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 52-55 | chapters 52-55 | null | {"name": "Chapters 52-55", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section14/", "summary": "Isabel visits Pansy at the convent shortly before leaving for England. Here, she is surprised to encounter Madame Merle. Merle seems uncharacteristically awkward around her,... |
There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the
Countess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with
her maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought
(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;
from her she couldn't turn away. She had n... | 15,521 | Chapters 52-55 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121226/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/section14/ | Isabel visits Pansy at the convent shortly before leaving for England. Here, she is surprised to encounter Madame Merle. Merle seems uncharacteristically awkward around her, even fumbling over her words, and Isabel realizes that Merle has guessed that she knows Pansy is Merle's daughter. Pansy seems slightly dejected, ... | And so, in the end, social convention seems to win out over American individualism and independence: Isabel returns to her agonizing marriage with Osmond, and even Henrietta decides to marry Mr. Bantling. Isabel's decision to return to Rome and to her husband is based on a variety of factors, each of which has been set... | 855 | 377 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/01.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_0_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady12.asp", "summary": "CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES VOLUME 1 Chapter 1 One of the best hours of the day takes place during afternoon tea. The setting of this English tea is an old English... |
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There
are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some
people of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those
that I have in mind in beginning ... | 3,424 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady12.asp | CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES VOLUME 1 Chapter 1 One of the best hours of the day takes place during afternoon tea. The setting of this English tea is an old English country-house. The light is perfect and all the elements of the tea service are perfect. An old man sits in a chair on the lawn holding an unusually large ... | null | 724 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_1_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 2 | chapter 2 | null | {"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady14.asp", "summary": "Ralph Touchett wanders away from his father and Lord Warburton as they chat. Suddenly his dog begins to bark excitedly at a young woman who has just stepped out of ... |
While this exchange of pleasantries took place between the two Ralph
Touchett wandered away a little, with his usual slouching gait, his
hands in his pockets and his little rowdyish terrier at his heels. His
face was turned toward the house, but his eyes were bent musingly on the
lawn; so that he had been an object of... | 1,899 | Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady14.asp | Ralph Touchett wanders away from his father and Lord Warburton as they chat. Suddenly his dog begins to bark excitedly at a young woman who has just stepped out of the door of the house. The dog is more welcoming than threatening in its bark and the woman immediately picks the dog up. Ralph is struck by the young woman... | null | 677 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_2_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 3 | chapter 3 | null | {"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady16.asp", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett has many odd points. She does everything in her own way. When Mrs. Touchett comes to visit her husband and son, she always retires into impenetrable s... |
Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her
behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a
noticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and
this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no
means without liberal motions, rarely s... | 3,050 | Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady16.asp | Mrs. Touchett has many odd points. She does everything in her own way. When Mrs. Touchett comes to visit her husband and son, she always retires into impenetrable seclusion for at least a few hours instead of greeting them immediately. She waits until she gets herself in order and then she sees them. She has been separ... | null | 660 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_3_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady18.asp", "summary": "Mrs. Lillian Ludlow, Isabels eldest sister, is considered the most sensible of the three sisters. Edith is the beauty and Isabel is the intellectual one, according ... |
Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought
the most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian
was the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the "intellectual"
superior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an
officer of the United States Engineers, and... | 2,530 | Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady18.asp | Mrs. Lillian Ludlow, Isabels eldest sister, is considered the most sensible of the three sisters. Edith is the beauty and Isabel is the intellectual one, according to people who know them. Edith married an officer of the U.S. Engineers and moved out West. Lilian had married a New York lawyer. He marriage isnt altogethe... | null | 726 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady20.asp", "summary": "Ralph Touchett visits his mother in her rooms. She asks about his health and Mr. Touchetts health and says its a good thing she didnt remain in England or she might... |
Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his
mother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness.
Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted
that of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the
sweetness of filial dependence. His father, ... | 4,312 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady20.asp | Ralph Touchett visits his mother in her rooms. She asks about his health and Mr. Touchetts health and says its a good thing she didnt remain in England or she might have "given out." Ralph smiles to think of this happening to such a formidable woman. Ralph had been a small boy when his father had come to England as a s... | null | 779 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_5_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 6 | chapter 6 | null | {"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady22.asp", "summary": "Isabel Archer entertains many theories with her active imagination. Most of the people of her life have regarded her as much smarter than they and she has accepted ... |
Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was
remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind
than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger
perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was
tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that... | 3,387 | Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady22.asp | Isabel Archer entertains many theories with her active imagination. Most of the people of her life have regarded her as much smarter than they and she has accepted this estimation as true. Her paternal aunt, Mrs. Varian, once spread the rumor that Isabel was working on a book. Mrs. Varian had a reverence for books, but... | Notes In this chapter, James reveals what will be Isabel Archers fatal flaw. It is her innocence along with her untested self-assurance that she can conquer any difficulty and remain the same good person. James makes this revelation with two techniques. The first is direct description of Isabels personality and the sec... | 555 | 74 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_6_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 7 | chapter 7 | null | {"name": "Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady23.asp", "summary": "Isabel and Ralph spend a great deal of time together talking about the British customs and politics. The Touchetts receive very few guests, so Isabel is left alone ... |
The two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude
of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to
appeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present
profoundly indifferent to Miss Isabel Archer, whose fortune had dropped
her, as her cousin said, into the du... | 3,426 | Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady23.asp | Isabel and Ralph spend a great deal of time together talking about the British customs and politics. The Touchetts receive very few guests, so Isabel is left alone with her family members most of the time. Isabel is both critical and sentimental. She tends to respond to criticisms of America with vigorous defense. She ... | Notes Chapter 7 brings out more of Isabel Archers character as an independent-minded young woman, but one who is not free and easy with social conventions. This sense of Isabels grounded sense of self and place is brought out in two senses. First, it is brought out in her intercourse with her cousin Ralph. From Ralphs ... | 387 | 222 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_7_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady24.asp", "summary": "Lord Warburton invites Isabel to come and see his house, Lockleigh. He gets Mrs. Touchett to agree to a visit. He tells Isabel about his family. His parents are dea... |
As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to
express a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very
curious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she
would bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness
to attend the ladies if his father should... | 2,372 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady24.asp | Lord Warburton invites Isabel to come and see his house, Lockleigh. He gets Mrs. Touchett to agree to a visit. He tells Isabel about his family. His parents are dead and he has two brothers and four sisters. His elder brother is a clergyman and very conservative, his younger brother is in the army in India and lives a ... | Notes Henry James goes to such trouble to develop the character of Lord Warburton, here, primarily because he is an important actor in Isabel Archers life. He will present one choice for her to take for her future. James is careful to make his English lord both rich and liberal. Lord Warburton is the kind of English lo... | 460 | 240 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_8_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady25.asp", "summary": "The two Misses Molyneux, Lord Warburtons sisters, come to see Isabel at Gardencourt. She finds them very sweet and is interested to see that they are not at all \"m... |
The two Misses Molyneux, this nobleman's sisters, came presently to call
upon her, and Isabel took a fancy to the young ladies, who appeared to
her to show a most original stamp. It is true that when she described
them to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be
less applicable than this to the two... | 2,124 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady25.asp | The two Misses Molyneux, Lord Warburtons sisters, come to see Isabel at Gardencourt. She finds them very sweet and is interested to see that they are not at all "morbid," a trait she has found to her distaste in some of her American friends and which she worries is present in her own nature. When she speaks of them to ... | Notes The situation of Lockleigh, the site of English aristocracy in the novel, is best summed up in the attitude Isabel finds so attractive in the Misses Molyneux: "its lovely to be so quiet and reasonable and satisfied." Isabel adds that she would like to be like this, but when she is approached by Lord Warburton, wh... | 346 | 120 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_9_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady26.asp", "summary": "Isabel receives a note from her friend Henrietta Stackpole informing her that she has arrived in England and wants to see her as well as to get some information ab... |
The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend
Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction
the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered
Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. "Here I am, my lovely
friend," Miss Stackpole wrote... | 3,927 | Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady26.asp | Isabel receives a note from her friend Henrietta Stackpole informing her that she has arrived in England and wants to see her as well as to get some information about the "inner life" of English society. Isabel is a little uncomfortable with the news of her friends arrival, but nevertheless asks Mr. Touchett who extend... | Notes Henrietta Stackpole is another of Henry James satellite figures intended to highlight some aspect of Isabel Archer. She is certainly provocative. Ralph feels vaguely embarrassed by Miss Stackpoles gaze "less inviolate, more dishonored, than he liked." Isabel is a bit uncomfortable with inviting Henrietta into the... | 480 | 183 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 11 | chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady27.asp", "summary": "Ralph Touchett is careful from henceforth not to mistake Henrietta Stackpoles inquisitive nature for one of personal interest. He realizes that for Henrietta, peop... |
He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words even when
Miss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He
bethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogeneous
organisms, and that he, for his own part, was too perverted a
representative of the nature of man to have a... | 2,298 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady27.asp | Ralph Touchett is careful from henceforth not to mistake Henrietta Stackpoles inquisitive nature for one of personal interest. He realizes that for Henrietta, people are "simple and homogenous organisms." Since he is "too perverted a representative of the nature of " he decides not to deal with her in a reciprocal rela... | Notes The happenstance that as Isabel is finishing Caspar Goodwoods letter she looks up to see Lord Warburton is a clever plot contrivance on James part. It is clear, here, that Warburton has supplanted Goodwood as the object of potential attraction for Isabel. However, since we have already seen Isabels ambivalence in... | 246 | 71 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady28.asp", "summary": "Isabel puts the letter in her pocket and offers her hand in greeting to Lord Warburton. It is clear he has come just to see her and she is sure it has to do with a... |
She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of
welcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her
coolness.
"They told me you were out here," said Lord Warburton; "and as there
was no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I
came out with no more ado... | 3,807 | Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady28.asp | Isabel puts the letter in her pocket and offers her hand in greeting to Lord Warburton. It is clear he has come just to see her and she is sure it has to do with a romantic intent. She had always thought of men only in relation to their moral nature, never in relation to their standing in the world. Lord Warburton is a... | Notes Within the space of one chapter, Isabel receives Lord Warburtons proposal of marriage and vows to refuse it. As she does, she decides that she must do something even better for herself than marrying an English lord. Isabel seems to sense that she has something to do that goes beyond England. It is after all the f... | 384 | 213 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady29.asp", "summary": "Isabel goes to her uncle to discuss the matter of Lord Warburtons offer of marriage. She tells him she doesnt plan to accept the offer. He tells her Lord Warburton... |
It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire
whatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken
place. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,
more human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a
more attractive light than either her a... | 5,166 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady29.asp | Isabel goes to her uncle to discuss the matter of Lord Warburtons offer of marriage. She tells him she doesnt plan to accept the offer. He tells her Lord Warburton has already written to him telling him of his plans to propose. Isabel says she doesnt want to get married at this point in her life. During their discussio... | Notes Here Isabel Archer sends Lord Warburton a letter rejecting his offer of marriage and Henrietta Stackpole begins a scheme to get her married to Caspar Goodwood regardless of her wishes. The issue at stake for Isabel seems to be about freedom. When she considered her life with Lord Warburton, she thought of it as a... | 524 | 232 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_13_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady30.asp", "summary": "Henrietta wants to leave immediately for London, but Isabel is kept waiting for Lord Warburton. He waits a few days to respond to her letter, and when he does, he ... |
Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as
we have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to
Gardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him.
For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had
written, very briefly, to say h... | 3,189 | Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady30.asp | Henrietta wants to leave immediately for London, but Isabel is kept waiting for Lord Warburton. He waits a few days to respond to her letter, and when he does, he writes to say he will be coming to call in a few days. He brings his sister, the elder Miss Molyneux, who has a "nun-like forehead" and wears a silver cross.... | Notes The sad encounter between Isabel and Lord Warburton only adds poignancy to her refusal of his marriage offer. Henry James makes clear in his description of the elder Miss Molyneux that Isabel would never fit into the life of a lords wife. This subtle clue--the description of Lord Warburtons sister--is reinforced ... | 475 | 216 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/15.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_14_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 15 | chapter 15 | null | {"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady31.asp", "summary": "Even though Mrs. Touchett doesnt quite approve of the plan of Isabel and Henrietta going to London with only Ralph as an escort, she doesnt stop them. Isabel is go... |
It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London
under Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on
the plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole
would be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of
the Interviewer was to take the party ... | 5,122 | Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady31.asp | Even though Mrs. Touchett doesnt quite approve of the plan of Isabel and Henrietta going to London with only Ralph as an escort, she doesnt stop them. Isabel is going in search of "local color." Isabel talks with her aunt about her rejection of Lord Warburton. Mrs. Touchett tells her she would have liked for Isabel to ... | Notes If it wasnt already clear to the reader before this, it is clear now: Ralph Touchett is in love with Isabel Archer. Since he is slowly dying, he cannot say anything to her of his affection, so he remains ironic and witty. He casts himself as a spectator. In this chapter, he is shown alone in his familys Wincheste... | 445 | 193 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/16.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_15_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady32.asp", "summary": "Isabel Archer had told Ralph Touchett to let her go home alone because she had realized lately that she hasnt had time alone for quite some time. She is interrupte... |
She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it
simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate
quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl
whom extravagance of aid places in an attitude that she ends by finding
"affected" had made her decide that... | 3,988 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady32.asp | Isabel Archer had told Ralph Touchett to let her go home alone because she had realized lately that she hasnt had time alone for quite some time. She is interrupted, however, by the announcement of Caspar Goodwood. She reluctantly goes down to meet him in the parlor. She is upset to find out about Henrietta Stackpoles ... | Notes In the scene between Isabel and Caspar, James traces out the outlines of the theme of a womans independence perhaps more than he does in any other place in the novel. Caspar Goodwood is an excellent satellite figure in the sense that he is so pushy. He forces Isabel to come up with a reason for her choice to part... | 574 | 261 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_16_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady33.asp", "summary": "Isabel isnt lying with her face hidden in her arms to pray, but to recover from the high emotions she feels. She is actually rejoicing at having gotten rid of Casp... |
She was not praying; she was trembling--trembling all over. Vibration
was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found
herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put
on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to
resist her excitement, and the attitud... | 2,354 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady33.asp | Isabel isnt lying with her face hidden in her arms to pray, but to recover from the high emotions she feels. She is actually rejoicing at having gotten rid of Caspar Goodwood. She feels guilty over it, but she also feels a thrill at having just exercised her power. She feels that "she had done what was truest to her pl... | Notes Chapter 17 is interesting mainly for its further depiction of Henrietta Stackpoles relation to Isabel Archer. Isabel scolds her for interfering in her private life. Henrietta seems to feel no remorse for her machinations at all. She tells Isabel that she loves her intensely. It does seem, in fact, that Henrietta ... | 452 | 357 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_17_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady34.asp", "summary": "Isabel and Ralph ride out to Gardencourt together. Once there, Isabel is left on her own. She goes down to look for Mrs. Touchett and finds someone in the parlor p... |
It had occurred to Ralph that, in the conditions, Isabel's parting with
her friend might be of a slightly embarrassed nature, and he went down
to the door of the hotel in advance of his cousin, who, after a slight
delay, followed with the traces of an unaccepted remonstrance, as he
thought, in her eyes. The two made t... | 5,335 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady34.asp | Isabel and Ralph ride out to Gardencourt together. Once there, Isabel is left on her own. She goes down to look for Mrs. Touchett and finds someone in the parlor playing the piano very beautifully. At first she thinks it is a French woman when they begin to speak, then Mrs. Touchett comes in and she is revealed to be a... | Notes Two momentous events occur in this chapter. The first is only the set up to a larger plot development. It is the introduction of Madame Merle, a woman who will play a significant role in Isabels life. The second is the transformation of Isabel from a poor relation to an equal. In settling such a large fortune on ... | 544 | 296 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_18_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady35.asp", "summary": "Isabel and Madame Merle spend a great deal of time together. Isabel often thinks that she reveals too much of herself to Madame Merle. She thinks Madame Merle has ... |
As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown
much together during the illness of their host, so that if they had
not become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners.
Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened
to please each other. It is perhaps too mu... | 7,399 | Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady35.asp | Isabel and Madame Merle spend a great deal of time together. Isabel often thinks that she reveals too much of herself to Madame Merle. She thinks Madame Merle has the great talent of knowing how to feel. Madame Merle, on the other hand, says that now that she is forty, she doesnt know how to feel any more, but does kno... | null | 745 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_19_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady37.asp", "summary": "A few weeks after the death of Mr. Touchett, Madame Merle visits Winchester Square and is surprised to find it is already being dismantled to be sold. Mrs. Touchet... |
Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to
the house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she
observed, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat,
wooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in white paint
the words--"This noble freehold mansion t... | 4,745 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady37.asp | A few weeks after the death of Mr. Touchett, Madame Merle visits Winchester Square and is surprised to find it is already being dismantled to be sold. Mrs. Touchett says she is pleased that her husband left her in such good financial shape and the narrator shows the Madame Merle is thinking unflattering things about Mr... | Notes Chapter 20 brings in Madame Merle only briefly, but quite importantly. She comes in to see the dismantling of the Touchett holdings, the house on Winchester Square in particular. In the narrators inside view of her thoughts, the reader finds out that she is envious. When she finds out that her new friend Isabel i... | 399 | 281 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_20_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady38.asp", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett prepares to leave Paris for Italy. She tells Isabel before they leave that she now has a clear choice whether to remain with her or go her own way. S... |
Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her
departure and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.
She interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo,
on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull,
bright winter beneath a slow-moving whit... | 2,328 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady38.asp | Mrs. Touchett prepares to leave Paris for Italy. She tells Isabel before they leave that she now has a clear choice whether to remain with her or go her own way. She says that "property erects a kind of barrier" and that when a woman is rich she can do many things that would be stoutly condemned if she were not. Isabel... | Notes The San Remo chapter provides a meditative interlude in the novel and builds up suspense as to what will happen in Italy, the "land of promise," in Isabels mind where "a love the beautiful might be comforted by endless knowledge." Ralph is in San Remo and it is always with Ralph that Isabel is shown in her best l... | 413 | 239 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_21_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady39.asp", "summary": "In May of the same year, six months after Mr. Touchett died, a man, his fifteen year old daughter, and two nuns are in one of the rooms of an Italian villa outside... |
On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr.
Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a
painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an
ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate
of Florence. The villa was a long, rather blank... | 5,652 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady39.asp | In May of the same year, six months after Mr. Touchett died, a man, his fifteen year old daughter, and two nuns are in one of the rooms of an Italian villa outside the gate of Florence. The house is like many of the ancient villas in Florence. It seems to wear a mask, so one cant see what it is like from the outside. T... | null | 630 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_22_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady41.asp", "summary": "Madame Merle has come to Florence at the invitation of Mrs. Touchett to spend a month with her at her house, the Palazzo Crescentini. She speaks to Isabel again ab... |
Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at
the invitation of this lady--Mrs. Touchett offering her for a month the
hospitality of Palazzo Crescentini--the judicious Madame Merle spoke to
Isabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might know
him; making, however, no such poi... | 3,136 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady41.asp | Madame Merle has come to Florence at the invitation of Mrs. Touchett to spend a month with her at her house, the Palazzo Crescentini. She speaks to Isabel again about Gilbert Osmond, telling her that he is one of the greatest men in Europe. Isabel spends her mornings with Ralph, who enjoys taking her through the great ... | Notes Isabels first meeting with Gilbert Osmond demonstrates in Henry James usual oblique way that something big is in the works. Instead of acting her usual self with him, Isabel is silent and withdrawn. Since the reader has been informed of the plot-- to get Isabel to marry Gilbert Osmond--this chapter is full of dra... | 462 | 160 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_23_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady42.asp", "summary": "Isabel and Madame Merle ride out to Gilbert Osmonds hill-top house one afternoon. In looking at the house, one saw that there was something \"grave and strong in ;... |
It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to
her from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing
could have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in
the full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the
Roman Gate, beneath the enormous blan... | 4,965 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady42.asp | Isabel and Madame Merle ride out to Gilbert Osmonds hill-top house one afternoon. In looking at the house, one saw that there was something "grave and strong in ; it looked somehow as if, once you were in, you would need an act of energy to get out." Isabel, however, isnt at all interested in getting out. She goes insi... | Notes Gilbert Osmond takes the first step in fulfilling Madame Merles ambitions for him. He woos Isabel Archer in the most subtle way. Isabel Archer has a few categories in her mind in which she finds a place for all the people she knows. Mr. Osmond, however, fits none of these categories, and it is just such a nature ... | 545 | 379 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_24_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady43.asp", "summary": "As Osmond and Isabel are chatting, Madame Merle and the Countess Gemini sit silently. Then the Countess starts up agitation, telling Madame Merle that she plans to... |
While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after
we cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,
breaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.
They were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude
especially marked on the part of the C... | 1,927 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady43.asp | As Osmond and Isabel are chatting, Madame Merle and the Countess Gemini sit silently. Then the Countess starts up agitation, telling Madame Merle that she plans to interfere in her plan to get Isabel to marry her brother. She says she likes Isabel and wants to save her from their scheme. Madame Merle tells her she is r... | Notes In stark contrast to Isabels romantic musings of the previous chapter, this chapter gives us the jaded views of the two other women in Gilbert Osmonds life. His sister proves to be just as Ralph said she was--kinder than her brother. She recognizes the plot hatched by Madame Merle to marry Osmond to a rich young ... | 316 | 108 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_25_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady44.asp", "summary": "Gilbert Osmond comes to the Palazzo Crescentini five times. Mrs. Touchett realizes he has never come more than twice in a single year and that since he cant possib... |
Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo
Crescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett
and Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of
these ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he
called five times, and compared it with another ... | 4,802 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady44.asp | Gilbert Osmond comes to the Palazzo Crescentini five times. Mrs. Touchett realizes he has never come more than twice in a single year and that since he cant possibly be interested in Madame Merle, he must be interested in Isabel. She asks Ralph about it and he says it is sure that Gilbert Osmond is interested in Isabel... | Notes This is an unusual chapter for this novel. In it, Henry James shifts point of view from one scene to the next and from one character to the next whereas in most of the chapters of the novel, he maintains more of a unity of scene and point of view. At most, he describes two scenes in one chapter. Here, however, he... | 544 | 383 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_26_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady45.asp", "summary": "Isabel loves Rome and has a very happy time exploring it with her friends. One day, Isabel sits down to rest alone and is met by Lord Warburton, just returned from... |
I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman's response
to the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the
pavement of the Forum or to number her pulsations as she crossed the
threshold of Saint Peter's. It is enough to say that her impression was
such as might have been expected of a pe... | 3,747 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady45.asp | Isabel loves Rome and has a very happy time exploring it with her friends. One day, Isabel sits down to rest alone and is met by Lord Warburton, just returned from a six month journey to the east. His looks very handsome and English. He tells her he has written to her many times but has never sent the letters. He tells... | Notes Chapter 27, the last chapter of Volume I, brings all the satellite figures together around Isabel Archer. It ends on the discussion of Ralph Touchett and Lord Warburton about the likelihood of Isabels falling in love with Gilbert Osmond. | 209 | 40 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_27_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 28 | chapter 28 | null | {"name": "Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady46.asp", "summary": "VOLUME 2 Chapter 28 The next evening Lord Warburton goes to the opera where he looks for Isabel and the others. He sees Isabel sitting in the opera box with Gilber... |
On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his
friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they
had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying
them a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when
he had obtained his admittance--it was one o... | 2,019 | Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady46.asp | VOLUME 2 Chapter 28 The next evening Lord Warburton goes to the opera where he looks for Isabel and the others. He sees Isabel sitting in the opera box with Gilbert Osmond and feels sick at the sight. He meets Ralph on the stairs. Ralph looks dejected and tells him he feels very low. He stays only a short time with the... | Notes Volume 2 begins on an ominous note as Isabel Archer says good- bye to the noble Lord Warburton and turns to Gilbert Osmond and he, for his part, thinks to himself the ignoble thought that he will be happy to add Isabel to his collection of rare treasures. Since he has always felt cheated by the universe for not h... | 258 | 80 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_28_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 29 | chapter 29 | null | {"name": "Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady47.asp", "summary": "Ralph Touchett has to admit that Gilbert Osmond is a delightful companion. Everyone is delighted with him. For his part, Gilbert Osmond is happy with everything ab... |
Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly
qualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal
merits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of
that gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond
spent a portion of each day with Isabe... | 3,059 | Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady47.asp | Ralph Touchett has to admit that Gilbert Osmond is a delightful companion. Everyone is delighted with him. For his part, Gilbert Osmond is happy with everything about Isabel archer but one thing. He doesnt like her eagerness and enthusiasm in praising things they see. He feels that if it werent for this fault, "she wou... | Notes For the third time, Isabel sits and listens to a man tell her his feelings for her. The difference, here, is that he doesnt ask her to marry him; he only tells her he loves her. This time, she feels the fear that if she lets go, she will lose her reticence and go to him. Gilbert Osmond has certainly played his pa... | 595 | 382 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_29_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady48.asp", "summary": "Isabel returns to Florence along with Ralph. She is to stay in Florence for three days before leaving with her aunt. She speaks to Madame Merle of her promise to v... |
She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin's escort, and
Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought
very well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried
his companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond's
preference--hours that were to form t... | 1,940 | Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady48.asp | Isabel returns to Florence along with Ralph. She is to stay in Florence for three days before leaving with her aunt. She speaks to Madame Merle of her promise to visit Gilbert Osmonds daughter. Madame Merle says she too wants to visit her. Isabel is disappointed since she wanted to make "her small pilgrimage" in solitu... | Notes Isabels visit to Pansy gives Henry James a way to demonstrate indirectly for the reader how Isabel feels about Gilbert Osmond. When Pansy says her father is a sad man, Isabel feels a strong urge to get her to say more of her father, but holds herself back. When Pansy repeats her fathers instructions over and over... | 354 | 296 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_30_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady49.asp", "summary": "Isabel comes back to Florence, but only a year later. During that year, she spends five months with her sister Lily and Lilys children and, briefly, Lilys husband.... |
Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval
sufficiently replete with incident. It is not, however, during this
interval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is
engaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after
her return to Palazzo Crescentini and a ye... | 2,683 | Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady49.asp | Isabel comes back to Florence, but only a year later. During that year, she spends five months with her sister Lily and Lilys children and, briefly, Lilys husband. Lily finds herself disappointed in what Isabel has done with herself all this time. Lily was expecting to find Isabel the center of social life in Europe an... | Notes This chapter opens one year later, when Isabel returns to Florence, but then it back-tracks and relates what shes done during the year. It begins with her time spent with her sister Lily. The key feature of this time is that Isabel Archer is thinking of Gilbert Osmond almost constantly, though not telling her sis... | 371 | 190 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_31_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 32 | chapter 32 | null | {"name": "Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady50.asp", "summary": "Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. She feels older after her travels, as if in some sense she is \"worth more.\" She has been dreading the scene she expects wi... |
It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood
at the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any
of the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,
but to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,
and she was not fond of scenes.... | 2,337 | Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady50.asp | Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. She feels older after her travels, as if in some sense she is "worth more." She has been dreading the scene she expects with Caspar Goodwood. He comes in "straight, strong, and hard." He tells her he came as soon as he got her letter telling him she was engaged to marry Gilbert Os... | Notes In his usual oblique way, Henry James announces Isabel Archers engagement to Gilbert Osmond with a scene between her and the sad but stiff Caspar Goodwood. The oblique way pays off in several respects. First, the reader sees Isabel Archers ambivalence about Caspar Goodwood. She feels guilty for rejecting him. She... | 190 | 243 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_32_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady51.asp", "summary": "After finishing crying, Isabel goes to tell her aunt of her engagement with Gilbert Osmond. Mrs. Touchett has guessed it. She immediately realizes she has been dec... |
Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it had
vanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt. I use this
expression because she had been sure Mrs. Touchett would not be pleased;
Isabel had only waited to tell her till she had seen Mr. Goodwood. She
had an odd impression that it... | 2,302 | Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady51.asp | After finishing crying, Isabel goes to tell her aunt of her engagement with Gilbert Osmond. Mrs. Touchett has guessed it. She immediately realizes she has been deceived by Madame Merle who promised to help prevent the engagement thereby keeping Mrs. Touchett from action. Mrs. Touchett says she might not have acted to p... | Notes This short chapter serves to give the reader Ralph Touchetts insight into the engagement of Isabel and Gilbert. He hates the news. It seems in fact to sicken him further. Yet he knows he cant say anything since it wont change Isabels mind and because it wont it would only cause problems between them. On the other... | 171 | 133 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_33_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 34 | chapter 34 | null | {"name": "Chapter 34", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady52.asp", "summary": "Isabel gets home one morning after her drive to see Gilbert Osmond and finds Ralph in the garden. He seems asleep and as she is about to leave, he opens his eyes a... |
One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before
luncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and,
instead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed
beneath another archway and entered the garden. A sweeter spot at this
moment could not have been imagined. The stillnes... | 3,188 | Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady52.asp | Isabel gets home one morning after her drive to see Gilbert Osmond and finds Ralph in the garden. He seems asleep and as she is about to leave, he opens his eyes and says he wasnt sleeping but thinking of her. He tells her hes been trying to think of how to express himself properly about her engagement. He tells her he... | Notes The discussion between Isabel and Ralph is both sad and maddening. Isabel takes on a noble view of her situation, being in love with someone whose nobility only she recognizes. Ralph speaks straight-forwardly. He tells her everything he has honestly been feeling and she doesnt seem to hear any of it, the warnings... | 434 | 87 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_34_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 35 | chapter 35 | null | {"name": "Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady53.asp", "summary": "Isabel never tells Gilbert Osmond of her family and friends opposition to the marriage. She feels as if in loving him, she is forced to break all her other ties. F... |
Isabel, when she strolled in the Cascine with her lover, felt no impulse
to tell him how little he was approved at Palazzo Crescentini. The
discreet opposition offered to her marriage by her aunt and her cousin
made on the whole no great impression upon her; the moral of it was
simply that they disliked Gilbert Osmond... | 3,005 | Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady53.asp | Isabel never tells Gilbert Osmond of her family and friends opposition to the marriage. She feels as if in loving him, she is forced to break all her other ties. For his part, Gilbert Osmond is elated with his success. He feels that Madame Merle has given him an enormous gift in giving him Isabel Archer. She is intelli... | Notes Isabel is isolated from all her usual sources of moral guidance. She seems to like this state of affairs at the moment. It makes her engagement to Gilbert Osmond even more romantic. Henry James relates only a bit of the kind of love talk she and Gilbert Osmond engage in during their walks in the park. He comes ac... | 310 | 228 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_35_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 36 | chapter 36 | null | {"name": "Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady54.asp", "summary": "In the autumn of 1876, Edward Rosier calls on Madame Merle to ask her to put in a good word for him with Gilbert Osmond. He wants to marry Pansy Osmond. He tells M... |
One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of
pleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third
floor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame
Merle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face
and a lady's maid's manner, ushered him i... | 3,077 | Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady54.asp | In the autumn of 1876, Edward Rosier calls on Madame Merle to ask her to put in a good word for him with Gilbert Osmond. He wants to marry Pansy Osmond. He tells Madame Merle that he wants to speak to Mrs. Isabel Osmond about it also and feels that Mrs. Osmond will be a help to him. Madame Merle advises against his spe... | Notes This chapter is set three years later. The reader finds out about Isabel Archer and Gilbert Osmonds marriage through innuendo. During the conversation between Edward Rosier and Madame Merle, we find out that Isabel and Gilbert Osmond are not a happy couple and that they seem to have been conducting a sort of a wa... | 324 | 335 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_36_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 37 | chapter 37 | null | {"name": "Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady55.asp", "summary": "Edward Rosier enters the Osmonds house and begins looking for Pansy Osmond. He doesnt find her in the first room and goes to the next room where he finds Mr. Osmon... |
Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a
concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here
Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place
to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about
the fire. The room was flushed with subdued,... | 3,637 | Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady55.asp | Edward Rosier enters the Osmonds house and begins looking for Pansy Osmond. He doesnt find her in the first room and goes to the next room where he finds Mr. Osmond. Mr. Osmond snubs him by offering only two fingers of his left hand when Rosier holds his hand out for a handshake. They briefly discuss their collecting. ... | Notes The situation is an evening at the Osmonds and the narrative treatment of it is as if it were a tableaux. A tableau is a kind of stage performance in which the actors dont speak but act out their parts in a way that conveys the meaning. The dialogue is less important than the implication of the position of the pl... | 616 | 227 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_37_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 38 | chapter 38 | null | {"name": "Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady56.asp", "summary": "Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle the next day and is surprised that she doesnt scold him for going against her advice. She tells him to be very patient and t... |
He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she let
him off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop
there till something should have been decided. Mr. Osmond had had higher
expectations; it was very true that as he had no intention of giving his
daughter a portion such expectation... | 3,811 | Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady56.asp | Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle the next day and is surprised that she doesnt scold him for going against her advice. She tells him to be very patient and to visit Pansy only on Thursday evenings when everyone else does. He agrees. The next Thursday he enters the Osmonds and greets Mr. Osmond who tells him he is... | Notes The character of Pansy is given a bit more fullness in this chapter. Hitherto she has seemed almost vacant. Here, she seems almost vacant as well, but she does say some fairly surprising things. She seems to have a plan to get to marry the man she loves and she plans to use Isabel as an ally. Here, Isabel is fina... | 492 | 166 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_38_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 39 | chapter 39 | null | {"name": "Chapter 39", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady57.asp", "summary": "Ralph hasnt seem much of Isabel since shes been married. He realizes that the discussion he had with her when he found out she was engaged has nearly destroyed the... |
It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett
should have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done
before that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly
prove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we
know, and after this had held his ... | 4,413 | Chapter 39 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady57.asp | Ralph hasnt seem much of Isabel since shes been married. He realizes that the discussion he had with her when he found out she was engaged has nearly destroyed their friendship. He had attended the wedding. It was very small. Only he, Mrs. Touchett, Pansy, and Countess Gemini attended. Madame Merle sent excuses from Ro... | Notes The interest of Lord Warburton in Pansy Osmond complicates the plot just enough to give Ralph Touchett a good show. Isabel has already half promised to help Pansy get the man she wants, the less than impressive Edward Rosier. Its clear that Gilbert Osmond will be happy for Lord Warburton as a son-in-law and will ... | 603 | 112 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_39_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 40 | chapter 40 | null | {"name": "Chapter 40", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady58.asp", "summary": "Since Isabels marriage, Madame Merle has been almost constantly absent from Rome. Isabel had at first wished things were different since she wished to have Madame ... |
Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady
having indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had
spent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a
winter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and
gave countenance to the idea that for the... | 4,624 | Chapter 40 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady58.asp | Since Isabels marriage, Madame Merle has been almost constantly absent from Rome. Isabel had at first wished things were different since she wished to have Madame Merles advice about how to cope with her unhappiness. " Isabel, as she herself grew older, became acquainted with revulsions, with disgusts; there were days ... | Notes Henry James is famous for his subtle depiction of drawing room dynamics. The social codes that are unspoken but remarkably well observed, the deep meaning of gestures, slight departures from prescribed manners, significant looks, and such like are the matter of his most exquisite descriptions. In this chapter, an... | 658 | 226 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_40_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 41 | chapter 41 | null | {"name": "Chapter 41", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady59.asp", "summary": "That evening Osmond brings the matter of Lord Warburton and Pansy up with Isabel for the first time. She is sitting alone in the drawing room. She had been there e... |
Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming
very late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had
spent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had
been sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged
his books and which he called his stu... | 2,899 | Chapter 41 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady59.asp | That evening Osmond brings the matter of Lord Warburton and Pansy up with Isabel for the first time. She is sitting alone in the drawing room. She had been there earlier with Pansy and Lord Warburton. Lord Warburton had come in earlier. Isabel says little to him because she wants to give him the chance to talk to Pansy... | Notes Isabels earnest desire to be a good wife is sad and touching here. Despite how she has suffered in her marriage, she wants to remove herself from the ugliness of it enough to retain a moral standing. This is the same moral attitude she had in theory before she was tested, before she was married. She thought that ... | 548 | 107 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_41_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 42 | chapter 42 | null | {"name": "Chapter 42", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady60.asp", "summary": "Isabel didnt answer Gilbert when he spoke to her because the way he put the situation threw her into thought about it. She sits far into the night thinking over th... |
She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before
her and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them
that suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust
herself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and
closed her eyes; and for a long ti... | 5,362 | Chapter 42 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady60.asp | Isabel didnt answer Gilbert when he spoke to her because the way he put the situation threw her into thought about it. She sits far into the night thinking over the situation shes in. She wonders if Gilbert is right, that her past with Lord Warburton has some force today. She wonders about Lord Warburtons motives for a... | null | 1,061 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_42_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 43 | chapter 43 | null | {"name": "Chapter 43", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady62.asp", "summary": "Three nights later, Isabel accompanies Pansy to a ball. She acts as Pansys guardian, holding her flowers for her and watching her dance. At one point when Pansy go... |
Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which
Osmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as
ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had
not extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on
those of love. If she was biding her time o... | 3,816 | Chapter 43 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady62.asp | Three nights later, Isabel accompanies Pansy to a ball. She acts as Pansys guardian, holding her flowers for her and watching her dance. At one point when Pansy goes to dance, Edward Rosier approaches looking grim. He asks for one of Pansys flowers and after hesitating, Isabel lets him choose one. She tells him she isn... | Notes Isabel seems to have made a turn in this chapter. She has turned back from her idea of pleasing Gilbert by encouraging Lord Warburton to marry Pansy. She has done so because she realizes Lord Warburton is not in love with Pansy but is instead still in love with her. Its not clear yet what her plan of action will ... | 531 | 72 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_43_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 44 | chapter 44 | null | {"name": "Chapter 44", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady63.asp", "summary": "The bored Countess Gemini is happily surprised with a visit from Henrietta Stackpole whom she remembered from her connection to Isabel. She has just received an in... |
The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,
to extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she
struggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an
unaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,
where he enjoyed such consideration as mi... | 5,000 | Chapter 44 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady63.asp | The bored Countess Gemini is happily surprised with a visit from Henrietta Stackpole whom she remembered from her connection to Isabel. She has just received an invitation to visit her brother and Isabel in Rome. Since she is always eager to visit Rome and sad to be kept away from it by reason of a lack of funds, she i... | Notes It seems that whenever James wants to bring out all of Isabels qualities or send her into action, he gathers around her a cast of characters who are conducive to action. These are, firstly, Henrietta Stackpole, Caspar Goodwood, but also Lord Warburton and Ralph Touchett. This chapter serves mainly as a set-up for... | 316 | 97 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_44_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 45 | chapter 45 | null | {"name": "Chapter 45", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady64.asp", "summary": "Isabel goes to see Ralph the next day. She is very worried lately about Gilberts opposition to her seeing so much of Ralph. She sees as much of him as she can with... |
I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be
displeased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge
was very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day
after she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his
sincerity; and at this moment, as at others, ... | 3,749 | Chapter 45 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady64.asp | Isabel goes to see Ralph the next day. She is very worried lately about Gilberts opposition to her seeing so much of Ralph. She sees as much of him as she can without causing Gilbert to forbid it. She knows Gilbert wants her away from Ralph because "he wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well t... | Notes Isabels interviews with Ralph and Pansy indicate that, though she is preparing the ground, she doesnt plan to break with Gilbert in going against his wishes. She seems naive in her attempt to act according to her conscience at the same time that she tries to follow Gilberts plan to marry Pansy to his choice of a ... | 538 | 65 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_45_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 46 | chapter 46 | null | {"name": "Chapter 46", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady65.asp", "summary": "Lord Warburton stays away from the Osmonds for four days. Gilbert Osmond finally asks Isabel what has happened to him. Isabel realizes that Gilbert is accusing her... |
Lord Warburton was not seen in Mrs. Osmond's drawing-room for several
days, and Isabel couldn't fail to observe that her husband said nothing
to her about having received a letter from him. She couldn't fail to
observe, either, that Osmond was in a state of expectancy and that,
though it was not agreeable to him to be... | 3,826 | Chapter 46 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady65.asp | Lord Warburton stays away from the Osmonds for four days. Gilbert Osmond finally asks Isabel what has happened to him. Isabel realizes that Gilbert is accusing her of being untrustworthy and he says just that. As they are talking, Lord Warburton is announced. He is clearly unhappy to find Gilbert there, but he recovers... | Notes The ugly scene between Isabel and Gilbert only confirms what the reader has been led to expect. At Lord Warburtons withdrawal, Gilbert has blamed Isabel of maneuvering to get him away. Henry James ahs set up the characters of Gilbert and Isabel carefully enough that their response to this latest change is predict... | 328 | 89 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_46_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 47 | chapter 47 | null | {"name": "Chapter 47", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady66.asp", "summary": "Henrietta Stackpole tells Isabel that Caspar Goodwood is in Rome. Madame Merle has left Rome for a short trip. Her departure has set Isabel thinking once again of ... |
It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had
come to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's
departure. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some
importance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame
Merle, who had gone to Naples to stay... | 5,105 | Chapter 47 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady66.asp | Henrietta Stackpole tells Isabel that Caspar Goodwood is in Rome. Madame Merle has left Rome for a short trip. Her departure has set Isabel thinking once again of her relationship with Gilbert. Isabel has an inkling that Madame Merle is very dangerous. She also feels such a dread at the thought that she will suddenly r... | Notes This chapter brings all the most important people of Isabels past aside from Lord Warburton together. Isabel gets Caspar Goodwood to visit Ralph and Henrietta takes this duty on herself and becomes fast friends with him. The chapter has the feel of being prelude to some action. Here, we get caught up on their cha... | 423 | 74 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_47_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 48 | chapter 48 | null | {"name": "Chapter 48", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady67.asp", "summary": "At the end of February, Ralph Touchett decides to leave for England. Henrietta Stackpole insists on going with him to care for him on the journey. Ralph is surpris... |
One day, toward the end of February, Ralph Touchett made up his mind to
return to England. He had his own reasons for this decision, which
he was not bound to communicate; but Henrietta Stackpole, to whom he
mentioned his intention, flattered herself that she guessed them. She
forbore to express them, however; she onl... | 5,537 | Chapter 48 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady67.asp | At the end of February, Ralph Touchett decides to leave for England. Henrietta Stackpole insists on going with him to care for him on the journey. Ralph is surprised at how pleased he is with this idea. He decides he will be "gratefully, luxuriously passive." Caspar Goodwood also comes to see him and tells him he plans... | null | 735 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_48_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 49 | chapter 49 | null | {"name": "Chapter 49", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady69.asp", "summary": "The narrator goes back in time to the day that Madame Merle came back from Naples and saw Isabel, the incident only mentioned briefly before. On that day, after Ma... |
Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the
evening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,
and Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.
Things had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,
and to appreciate which we must glan... | 4,387 | Chapter 49 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady69.asp | The narrator goes back in time to the day that Madame Merle came back from Naples and saw Isabel, the incident only mentioned briefly before. On that day, after Madame Merle had asked Isabel what she had done to send Lord Warburton away, Isabel had asked her not to talk of him. Madame Merle says she cant help but talk ... | null | 1,086 | 1 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_49_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 50 | chapter 50 | null | {"name": "Chapter 50", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady71.asp", "summary": "Isabel likes to take the Countess Gemini with her on trips around Rome because it gives her sister-in-law something other than the sexual affairs of the women in F... |
As the Countess Gemini was not acquainted with the ancient monuments
Isabel occasionally offered to introduce her to these interesting relics
and to give their afternoon drive an antiquarian aim. The Countess, who
professed to think her sister-in-law a prodigy of learning, never made
an objection, and gazed at masses ... | 2,805 | Chapter 50 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady71.asp | Isabel likes to take the Countess Gemini with her on trips around Rome because it gives her sister-in-law something other than the sexual affairs of the women in Florence as a topic of conversation. While they are at the Coliseum one day, Isabel wanders off alone while the Countess and Pansy go exploring. She is greete... | Notes Two things occur in this chapter. First, Edward Rosier comes back to Rome with the news that he is $50,000 richer because he has sold his collection of bibelots. Second, Osmond sends Pansy to the convent for two weeks. In Isabels eyes, he does so to scare Pansy and Isabel into realizing that he is in complete con... | 424 | 119 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_50_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 51 | chapter 51 | null | {"name": "Chapter 51", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady72.asp", "summary": "Isabel gets news from Mrs. Touchett that Ralph is dying quickly. She asks Isabel to come. Isabel goes to see Gilbert to tell him of the news. Gilbert acts bored by... |
The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure
of her brother's hospitality. A week after this incident Isabel received
a telegram from England, dated from Gardencourt and bearing the stamp of
Mrs. Touchett's authorship. "Ralph cannot last many days," it ran, "and
if convenient would like to ... | 5,523 | Chapter 51 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady72.asp | Isabel gets news from Mrs. Touchett that Ralph is dying quickly. She asks Isabel to come. Isabel goes to see Gilbert to tell him of the news. Gilbert acts bored by it. Then he asks why she must go to Gardencourt. He says he was already abundantly generous with her in letting her spend so much time with Ralph in Rome wh... | Notes Isabel finally learns all the truth of Madame Merle and Gilbert Osmonds relationship in this chapter. She learns not only that they are Pansys biological parents, but all the reasons they enacted the scheme to make everyone think Osmonds first wife had died in childbirth. The revelation of this truth is perfectly... | 638 | 279 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_51_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 52 | chapter 52 | null | {"name": "Chapter 52", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady73.asp", "summary": "Before Isabel leaves Rome, she goes to see Pansy at the convent. When she arrives, she is greeted by Madame Merle. She doesnt want to see this person, but knows sh... |
There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the
Countess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with
her maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought
(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;
from her she couldn't turn away. She had n... | 3,730 | Chapter 52 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady73.asp | Before Isabel leaves Rome, she goes to see Pansy at the convent. When she arrives, she is greeted by Madame Merle. She doesnt want to see this person, but knows she must for the sake of appearances. She realizes as she stands there that Madame Merle has sensed her knowledge. She is surprised to recognize that Madame Me... | Notes The visit to the convent reveals the next greatest plot complication in the novel. If it werent for her ties to Pansy, Isabel could leave Gilbert and Rome forever. She loves Pansy, though, and knows that she is the only part of Pansys life that is not mean-spirited, manipulating, and selfishly cruel. Pansys last ... | 336 | 269 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_52_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 53 | chapter 53 | null | {"name": "Chapter 53", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady74.asp", "summary": "Isabel is greeted by Henrietta Stackpole at Charring Cross railway station. She remembers that five years ago she had walked from this station into the crowd with ... |
It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other
circumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel
descended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the
arms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole.
She had telegraphed to her friend from Turin... | 2,875 | Chapter 53 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady74.asp | Isabel is greeted by Henrietta Stackpole at Charring Cross railway station. She remembers that five years ago she had walked from this station into the crowd with so much confidence. Now she feels overwhelmed by the mass of people and holds onto Henriettas arm for safety. When she sees Mr. Bantling, she feels relieved.... | Notes This chapter gives the reader a bit of a respite from the more eventful preceding ones. Its news, that Henrietta Stackpole will marry Mr. Bantling and live in London, is surprising, but not shocking as the news Isabel has been receiving of late about her husband. Perhaps the main function of placing this bit of n... | 186 | 91 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_53_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 54 | chapter 54 | null | {"name": "Chapter 54", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady75.asp", "summary": "Isabel arrives at Gardencourt. The house is very quiet. She waits a long time for Mrs. Touchett to come down. She wanders through the art gallery thinking of her l... |
Isabel's arrival at Gardencourt on this second occasion was even
quieter than it had been on the first. Ralph Touchett kept but a small
household, and to the new servants Mrs. Osmond was a stranger; so that
instead of being conducted to her own apartment she was coldly shown
into the drawing-room and left to wait whil... | 3,580 | Chapter 54 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady75.asp | Isabel arrives at Gardencourt. The house is very quiet. She waits a long time for Mrs. Touchett to come down. She wanders through the art gallery thinking of her life. She wonders what would have come of it if Mrs. Touchett had never come to her in Albany and taken her to England. She wonders if she would have married ... | Notes The two conversations in this chapter, one with Mrs. Touchett and one with Ralph, are ones in which Isabel returns to her family and is open about her life. Mrs. Touchett asks her three questions: if she is sorry not to have married Lord Warburton, if she still likes Serena Merle, and the third, unspoken, seems t... | 435 | 137 |
2,833 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/55.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Portrait of a Lady/section_54_part_0.txt | Portrait of a Lady.chapter 55 | chapter 55 | null | {"name": "Chapter 55", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady76.asp", "summary": "Isabel remembers that when she first came to Gardencourt, she asked Ralph to show her its ghost. He had told her that she would have to suffer before she could see... |
He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that
if she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost
with which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled
the necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint
dawn, she knew that a spirit was standin... | 5,339 | Chapter 55 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820033733/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPortraitLady76.asp | Isabel remembers that when she first came to Gardencourt, she asked Ralph to show her its ghost. He had told her that she would have to suffer before she could see the ghost. On this night, she finally sees it. She has been in bed, half asleep, but fully clothed, because shes expected Ralph to die during the night. Sud... | Notes Henry Jamess sense of the dramatic helps him set the stage of the last scene of the novel. He places Isabel at the same bench in the gardens of Gardencourt at which she received Caspar Goodwoods telegram announcing he had followed her to Europe, and at which she had received Lord Warburtons proposal. Here again, ... | 540 | 131 |
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SCYLD.
{The famous race of Spear-Danes.}
Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements
The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of,
How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.
{Scyld, their mighty king, in honor of whom they are often called
S... | 62,474 | 1-98 | https://web.archive.org/web/20200920112844/https://www.novelguide.com/beowulf/summaries/line1-98 | Beowulf begins with the legends of the warrior kings of the Danes. The most famous was Shield Sheafson, the founder of the ruling house. He was revered by his own subjects, and outlying clans were forced to pay tribute to him. Shield had a son named Beow, who became famous throughout the region for his exploits. Shield... | null | 310 | 1 |
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