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2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_9_part_2.txt | King Lear.act 4.scene 4 | act 4, scene 4 | null | {"name": "act 4, Scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene3-act4-scene4", "summary": "Cordelia speaks with the doctor in her camp and sends out men to find her father. A messenger brings her news of the British forces advancing upon them, and ... | Scena Quarta.
Enter Regan, and Steward.
Reg. But are my Brothers Powres set forth?
Stew. I Madam
Reg. Himselfe in person there?
Stew. Madam with much ado:
Your Sister is the better Souldier
Reg. Lord Edmund spake not with your Lord at home?
Stew. No Madam
Reg. What might import my Sisters Letter ... | 568 | act 4, Scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene3-act4-scene4 | Cordelia speaks with the doctor in her camp and sends out men to find her father. A messenger brings her news of the British forces advancing upon them, and she says that they are prepared for them | null | 43 | 1 |
2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_10_part_1.txt | King Lear.act 4.scene 5 | act 4, scene 5 | null | {"name": "act 4, Scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene5-act4-scene6", "summary": "Oswald carries a message back to Regan from Goneril and Regan finds out that she has also sent a message to Edmund. Regan, now that her husband is dead, deci... | Scena Quinta.
Enter Gloucester, and Edgar.
Glou. When shall I come to th' top of that same hill?
Edg. You do climbe vp it now. Look how we labor
Glou. Me thinkes the ground is eeuen
Edg. Horrible steepe.
Hearke, do you heare the Sea?
Glou. No truly
Edg. Why then your other Senses grow imperfect
By ... | 4,530 | act 4, Scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene5-act4-scene6 | Oswald carries a message back to Regan from Goneril and Regan finds out that she has also sent a message to Edmund. Regan, now that her husband is dead, decides that she should marry Edmund. Thinking that her sister also has affection for him and not for her husband, she wants to win him before Goneril can get him. She... | null | 97 | 1 |
2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_11_part_1.txt | King Lear.act 4.scene 7 | act 4, scene 7 | null | {"name": "act 4, Scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene7-act5-scene1", "summary": "Back in the French camp, Cordelia recognizes Kent, but he asks her to keep his identity a secret still. She agrees, and tells the doctor it is ok if he wakes... |
Scaena Septima.
Enter Cordelia, Kent, and Gentleman.
Cor. O thou good Kent,
How shall I liue and worke
To match thy goodnesse?
My life will be too short,
And euery measure faile me
Kent. To be acknowledg'd Madam is ore-pai'd,
All my reports go with the modest truth,
Nor more, nor clipt, but so
Cor. Be bett... | 1,170 | act 4, Scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene7-act5-scene1 | Back in the French camp, Cordelia recognizes Kent, but he asks her to keep his identity a secret still. She agrees, and tells the doctor it is ok if he wakes her father who has been sleeping in their care. He awakens, and at first thinks he is dead. He then recognizes Cordelia, but thinks that she will do him harm beca... | null | 155 | 1 |
2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_11_part_2.txt | King Lear.act 5.scene 1 | act 5, scene 1 | null | {"name": "Act 5, Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene7-act5-scene1", "summary": "Edmund and Regan are speaking, and Regan asks Edmund if he loves Goneril. He answers that he does, and Regan is disappointed. The Duke of Albany and Edmund d... | Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
Enter with Drumme and Colours, Edmund, Regan. Gentlemen, and
Souldiers.
Bast. Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold,
Or whether since he is aduis'd by ought
To change the course, he's full of alteration,
And selfereprouing, bring his constant pleasure
Reg. Our Sisters man is cer... | 887 | Act 5, Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act4-scene7-act5-scene1 | Edmund and Regan are speaking, and Regan asks Edmund if he loves Goneril. He answers that he does, and Regan is disappointed. The Duke of Albany and Edmund decide to join forces against the invading French army when Edgar comes to them dressed in his disguise and gives a paper to Albany. Edmund enters and gives another... | null | 133 | 1 |
2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_12_part_1.txt | King Lear.act 5.scene 2 | act 5, scene 2 | null | {"name": "act 5, Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act5-scene2-act5-scene3", "summary": "Edgar drags his father along and tells him that the French army has been defeated, and Cordelia and Lear wear captured", "analysis": ""} | Scena Secunda.
Alarum within. Enter with Drumme and Colours, Lear, Cordelia,
and
Souldiers, ouer the Stage, and Exeunt. Enter Edgar, and Gloster.
Edg. Heere Father, take the shadow of this Tree
For your good hoast: pray that the right may thriue:
If euer I returne to you againe,
Ile bring you comfort
Glo. Grac... | 239 | act 5, Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act5-scene2-act5-scene3 | Edgar drags his father along and tells him that the French army has been defeated, and Cordelia and Lear wear captured | null | 27 | 1 |
2,266 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/2266-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/King Lear/section_12_part_2.txt | King Lear.act 5.scene 3 | act 5, scene 3 | null | {"name": "act 5, Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act5-scene2-act5-scene3", "summary": "Cordelia and Lear are sent to prison but plan happy ways to spend their time there. Edmund tells his captain as he's taking them that they are to be assassin... | Scena Tertia.
Enter in conquest with Drum and Colours, Edmund, Lear, and
Cordelia, as
prisoners, Souldiers, Captaine.
Bast. Some Officers take them away: good guard,
Vntill their greater pleasures first be knowne
That are to censure them
Cor. We are not the first,
Who with best meaning haue incurr'd the worst:... | 4,736 | act 5, Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201205114447/https://www.novelguide.com/king-lear/summaries/act5-scene2-act5-scene3 | Cordelia and Lear are sent to prison but plan happy ways to spend their time there. Edmund tells his captain as he's taking them that they are to be assassinated. Albany enters to discuss the conditions of the prisoners, and Edmund tells him they will discuss it later. The women then get in a fight over Edmund, and Alb... | null | 334 | 1 |
2,662 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2662-chapters/01.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Under the Greenwood Tree/section_0_part_0.txt | Under the Greenwood Tree.part i.chapter i | chapter i | null | {"name": "Chapter I", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood12.asp", "summary": "The book begins on a cold and starry Christmas Eve in Mellstock. Dick Dewy, an ordinary looking young man, is singing on his way home through the woods. Five other vil... |
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well
as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan
no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with
itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its
flat boughs rise and fall. ... | 1,664 | Chapter I | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood12.asp | The book begins on a cold and starry Christmas Eve in Mellstock. Dick Dewy, an ordinary looking young man, is singing on his way home through the woods. Five other villagers, also traveling towards the Dewy house, join Dick, including Michael Mail , Robert Penny , Elias Spinks , Joseph Bowman , and Thomas Leaf . Dick t... | Notes This first chapter is largely introductory. Hardy begins his description of the lovely Mellstock landscape in the very first paragraph of the novel. He also establishes the harmonious co- existence of the villagers with one another and with nature. In fact, the song that Dick Dewy is singing recalls the kinship b... | 170 | 185 |
2,662 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2662-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Under the Greenwood Tree/section_1_part_0.txt | Under the Greenwood Tree.part i.chapter ii | chapter ii | null | {"name": "Chapter II", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood13.asp", "summary": "The Dewy's house, a low-roofed cottage, has three chimneys and a thatched roof. The walls of the house are covered with creeping plants, and the door appears to be wo... |
It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer
windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of
the ridge and another at each end. The window-shutters were not yet
closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the
thick bushes of box and laurestinus g... | 3,673 | Chapter II | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood13.asp | The Dewy's house, a low-roofed cottage, has three chimneys and a thatched roof. The walls of the house are covered with creeping plants, and the door appears to be worn out from the coming and going of many people. A little away from the cottage is a building from which comes the sound of woodcutting. The sound of hors... | Notes In this chapter, traditional rustic hospitality and family life are introduced. The Dewy home is warmly described in careful detail. Even though the Dewys are not wealthy, they are a close family unit. They have put up a Christmas tree in the big room of their picturesque cottage and have gathered around it, anxi... | 430 | 207 |
2,662 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/2662-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Under the Greenwood Tree/section_2_part_0.txt | Under the Greenwood Tree.part i.chapter iii | chapter iii | null | {"name": "Chapter III", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood14.asp", "summary": "Even though Grandfather William is seventy, he is still very active although sometimes weak-minded. His bright face would remind a gardener of the \"sunny side of a ... |
William Dewy--otherwise grandfather William--was now about seventy; yet
an ardent vitality still preserved a warm and roughened bloom upon his
face, which reminded gardeners of the sunny side of a ripe
ribstone-pippin; though a narrow strip of forehead, that was protected
from the weather by lying above the line of h... | 3,509 | Chapter III | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820032827/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreenwood14.asp | Even though Grandfather William is seventy, he is still very active although sometimes weak-minded. His bright face would remind a gardener of the "sunny side of a ripe ribstone - pippin." William, a religious man, is also very good-hearted. When he joins the party, he wishes everyone a merry Christmas and throws an ar... | Notes In this chapter the Mellstock rustics are brought to life through their conversation and the stories that they tell. They perform an almost choric function as they give information on various characters and events. Penny's discussion on boot making and his digression on John Woodward's brother are very interestin... | 466 | 127 |
351 | true | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/351-chapters/chapters_1_to_4.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Of Human Bondage/section_0_part_0.txt | Of Human Bondage.chapters 1-4 | chapters 1-4 | null | {"name": "Chapters I-IV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman11.asp", "summary": "The novel opens with the scene of a dying woman attended by a doctor and the nurses. She has just delivered a stillborn child, and her condition is critical. At her ... | <CHAPTER>
I
The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a
rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room
in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced
mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and
went to the child's bed.
"... | 6,376 | Chapters I-IV | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman11.asp | The novel opens with the scene of a dying woman attended by a doctor and the nurses. She has just delivered a stillborn child, and her condition is critical. At her request, the nurse brings her first- born child, Philip, to her bedside. Mrs. Carey caresses him, tenderly touches his feet, and bursts into tears. The doc... | Notes In these opening chapters, Maugham conveys the poignancy of Philip's situation through clear descriptions and short conversations. It is a touching scene when his mother calls him to her bedside before she dies. They obviously had a close relationship, as evidenced by her tender touches, by his taking her favorit... | 338 | 483 |
351 | true | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/351-chapters/chapters_10_to_14.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Of Human Bondage/section_2_part_0.txt | Of Human Bondage.chapters 10-14 | chapters 10-14 | null | {"name": "Chapters X-XIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman13.asp", "summary": "These chapters relate the experience of Philip at the preparatory King's School, which helps to prepare a boy for the ministry. As he accompanies his uncle to the s... | <CHAPTER>
X
The Careys made up their minds to send Philip to King's School at
Tercanbury. The neighbouring clergy sent their sons there. It was united
by long tradition to the Cathedral: its headmaster was an honorary Canon,
and a past headmaster was the Archdeacon. Boys were encouraged there to
aspire to Holy Order... | 10,182 | Chapters X-XIV | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman13.asp | These chapters relate the experience of Philip at the preparatory King's School, which helps to prepare a boy for the ministry. As he accompanies his uncle to the school at Tercanbury, he is full of apprehension and feels self-conscious about his clubfoot. His uncle leaves him in the care of Mr. Watson. True to his fea... | Notes School is a new experience for Philip. Having led a protected life in the past, he now becomes aware of the harsh realities of life. The students make fun of his clubfoot, making him feel ashamed and isolating him further. To avoid the taunts of the students, he visualizes his mother's presence, seeking her prote... | 332 | 190 |
351 | true | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/351-chapters/chapters_15_to_21.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Of Human Bondage/section_3_part_0.txt | Of Human Bondage.chapters 15-21 | chapters 15-21 | null | {"name": "Chapters XV-XXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman14.asp", "summary": "Philip graduates from preparatory school and at the age of thirteen enters King's School, a well established institution known for its excellence in learning. It i... | <CHAPTER>
XV
The King's School at Tercanbury, to which Philip went when he was
thirteen, prided itself on its antiquity. It traced its origin to an abbey
school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were
taught by Augustine monks; and, like many another establishment of this
sort, on the de... | 21,791 | Chapters XV-XXI | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052247/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOfHuman14.asp | Philip graduates from preparatory school and at the age of thirteen enters King's School, a well established institution known for its excellence in learning. It is conforming and traditional in every way, with a curriculum based on the classics. When Mr. Perkins replaces the old headmaster, he is looked down upon. Tho... | Notes In these chapters, Maugham cynically mocks the old staff at the King's School who value tradition and social status more than education and erudition. Perkins, though very intelligent and well- educated, is rejected by them because he is not considered to be a gentleman due to his family's status. When he changes... | 289 | 376 |
351 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/351-chapters/chapters_87_to_89.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Of Human Bondage/section_15_part_0.txt | Of Human Bondage.chapters 87-89 | chapters 87-89 | null | {"name": "Chapters 87-89", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201022042309/https://www.novelguide.com/of-human-bondage/summaries/chapter87-89", "summary": "Philip goes to the house of Athelny, the ex-patient, in a slum area that was once grand. Athelny is 5'5\" and speaks eloquently on everything from Spanish litera... | <CHAPTER>
LXXXVII
Ten days later Thorpe Athelny was well enough to leave the hospital. He
gave Philip his address, and Philip promised to dine with him at one
o'clock on the following Sunday. Athelny had told him that he lived in a
house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything,
over the balu... | 10,809 | Chapters 87-89 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201022042309/https://www.novelguide.com/of-human-bondage/summaries/chapter87-89 | Philip goes to the house of Athelny, the ex-patient, in a slum area that was once grand. Athelny is 5'5" and speaks eloquently on everything from Spanish literature to the seventeenth century ceiling of the slum house, built by the famous Inigo Jones. Philip meets the nine children of Athelny by his common law wife, Be... | Commentary on Chapters LXXXVII-LXXXIX . This idyllic family life in the middle of a London slum is a surprise in the story, which so far seems to have centered on Philip's ideals getting smashed one by one. He has learned a modern cynical view of life, and even the artist's ideas of freedom have seemed contradicted by ... | 272 | 433 |
351 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/351-chapters/chapters_110_to_111.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Of Human Bondage/section_19_part_0.txt | Of Human Bondage.chapters 110-111 | chapters 110-111 | null | {"name": "Chapters 110-111", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201022042309/https://www.novelguide.com/of-human-bondage/summaries/chapter110-111", "summary": "of Chapters CX and CXI . Philip spends the Christmas holidays with his uncle, who is dying. Philip has to keep pretending that his uncle looks good, but Mr. ... | <CHAPTER>
CX
Christmas that year falling on Thursday, the shop was to close for four
days: Philip wrote to his uncle asking whether it would be convenient for
him to spend the holidays at the vicarage. He received an answer from Mrs.
Foster, saying that Mr. Carey was not well enough to write himself, but
wished to ... | 6,159 | Chapters 110-111 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201022042309/https://www.novelguide.com/of-human-bondage/summaries/chapter110-111 | of Chapters CX and CXI . Philip spends the Christmas holidays with his uncle, who is dying. Philip has to keep pretending that his uncle looks good, but Mr. Carey is completely helpless and cared for by his housekeeper, Mrs. Foster. Philip thinks it strange that his uncle has been preaching eternal life for decades and... | Commentary on Chapters CX and CXI Uncle Carey is the last of Philip's family, and though he did not feel close to him and wished for his death so he could resume his own life, he feels compassion watching him die. He cannot understand how the final sacraments eased his uncle's soul, but he is happy for him. This dea... | 353 | 282 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-7-9", "summary": "Lord Warburton gets Mrs. Touchett to promise to bring Isabel to his own manor, Lockleigh. Isabel learns about Lord Warburton's family life: he has two ... |
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... | 3,759 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-7-9 | Lord Warburton gets Mrs. Touchett to promise to bring Isabel to his own manor, Lockleigh. Isabel learns about Lord Warburton's family life: he has two brothers and four sisters. Isabel notes that Warburton acts as if she is an American "barbarian" , and he makes little allowance for her imagination or for her experienc... | Isabel is likened to an aesthetic object in Ralph's imagination, described as a "fine work of art." It is interesting to read the parallel between our approach to works of art and to Isabel Archer. One typically assumes a disinterested attitude to a work of art, insofar as one sees something is beautiful without conce... | 446 | 518 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_3.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-7-9", "summary": "Lord Warburton's two sisters, the Misses Molyneux, come to visit Gardencourt. Isabel notes that they are very timid but also very sweet, with the charm... |
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... | 3,540 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-7-9 | Lord Warburton's two sisters, the Misses Molyneux, come to visit Gardencourt. Isabel notes that they are very timid but also very sweet, with the charm of not being "morbid". They invite her to Lockleigh during a time in which other guests will also be present. When Isabel visits them at Lockleigh, she asks if their br... | Isabel is likened to an aesthetic object in Ralph's imagination, described as a "fine work of art." It is interesting to read the parallel between our approach to works of art and to Isabel Archer. One typically assumes a disinterested attitude to a work of art, insofar as one sees something is beautiful without conce... | 490 | 518 |
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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... | 3,749 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-10-14 | Henrietta gets along well at Gardencourt mostly, except that she begins to mistrust Mrs. Touchett. Mrs. Touchett thinks that Henrietta is both a bore and an adventuress. She detests her manners. Mrs. Touchett tells Henrietta: "We judge from different points of view, evidently. I like to be treated as an individual; you... | Ralph and Henrietta do not seem to really get along -- perhaps they might remind us of friends in a TV sitcom who always make fun of each other, never see eye to eye, yet nevertheless get something out of each other's company. Ralph finds it fun to evade straightforward answers to Henrietta's questions about his own i... | 428 | 710 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_5_part_5.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-10-14", "summary": "Lord Warburton and his sisters arrive at Gardencourt right before Isabel departs for London. Henrietta meets Lord Warburton and tells him that she d... |
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... | 5,372 | Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-10-14 | Lord Warburton and his sisters arrive at Gardencourt right before Isabel departs for London. Henrietta meets Lord Warburton and tells him that she does not approve of lords as an institution. Lord Warburton agrees, and Miss Stackpole asks why he does not give it up. Lord Warburton jokes that they'll make a ceremony of ... | Ralph and Henrietta do not seem to really get along -- perhaps they might remind us of friends in a TV sitcom who always make fun of each other, never see eye to eye, yet nevertheless get something out of each other's company. Ralph finds it fun to evade straightforward answers to Henrietta's questions about his own i... | 373 | 710 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_8_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-22-23", "summary": "At Mrs. Touchett's place, the Palazzo Crescenti in Florence, Merle comes to visit. She arranges for Isabel and Gilbert Osmond to meet. When Osmond v... |
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... | 4,870 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-22-23 | At Mrs. Touchett's place, the Palazzo Crescenti in Florence, Merle comes to visit. She arranges for Isabel and Gilbert Osmond to meet. When Osmond visits the house, Isabel is uncharacteristically silent, finding it more important to get an accurate impression of him than she finds it important to produce her own impres... | Gilbert Osmond is described as an aesthete. He has impeccable taste, but there seems to be something substantially lacking in him. His house is described in very sinister terms: it is a surface, just a "face" that bars communication with the outside. The architecture and style of his house is a symbol of Osmond's ow... | 420 | 486 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_9_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-24-26", "summary": "Meanwhile, Madame Merle and Countess Gemini's conversation, occurring at the same time as Isabel and Osmond's conversation, is recounted. Countess G... |
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... | 3,337 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-24-26 | Meanwhile, Madame Merle and Countess Gemini's conversation, occurring at the same time as Isabel and Osmond's conversation, is recounted. Countess Gemini declares that she does not approve of Madame Merle's plan. Madame Merle claims that she has no plan, and that she is not calculating. Countess Gemini declares that sh... | In Chapter 24, Isabel gets an impression of Osmond's home. Note that she does not see it as so ominous an object as the narrator has previously described the villa. Rather than seeing it as a house with windows that do not allow communication with the world , Isabel's perspective allows the narrator to briefly remark... | 272 | 824 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_1.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30", "summary": "Isabel visits Rome with Ralph, Henrietta, and Mr. Bantling. One day, they are visiting some old Roman ruins that are in the process of being excavat... |
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... | 5,878 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30 | Isabel visits Rome with Ralph, Henrietta, and Mr. Bantling. One day, they are visiting some old Roman ruins that are in the process of being excavated. Henrietta and Mr. Bantling wander off together, and Ralph goes to see an archaeological dig that is in process, leaving Isabel alone with her thoughts. She is distracte... | In these chapters, we start to see the significance of one person's view of oneself for determining one's actions and preferences in the world. Isabel likes how she herself is seen by Gilbert Osmond; Gilbert Osmond likes how Lord Warburton sees Isabel, and decides that Isabel is worthy of being admired because of it; ... | 439 | 830 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 28 | chapter 28 | null | {"name": "Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30", "summary": "The next day Lord Warburton goes to the opera, where he knows he will find Isabel and the others. He spots Isabel in a box with Gilbert Osmond and d... |
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... | 3,337 | Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30 | The next day Lord Warburton goes to the opera, where he knows he will find Isabel and the others. He spots Isabel in a box with Gilbert Osmond and decides to join her. Lord Warburton then glumly watches the two together during the opera. He feels angry and puzzled. Osmond later asks about Lord Warburton. Upon finding o... | In these chapters, we start to see the significance of one person's view of oneself for determining one's actions and preferences in the world. Isabel likes how she herself is seen by Gilbert Osmond; Gilbert Osmond likes how Lord Warburton sees Isabel, and decides that Isabel is worthy of being admired because of it; ... | 364 | 830 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_3.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 29 | chapter 29 | null | {"name": "Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30", "summary": "Ralph notes that Osmond is a very agreeable companion. We learn that Osmond thinks Isabel is a fine figure, but that she has the fault of being too ... |
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... | 4,852 | Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30 | Ralph notes that Osmond is a very agreeable companion. We learn that Osmond thinks Isabel is a fine figure, but that she has the fault of being too ready, too precipitate. Osmond feels quite happy and he even writes Isabel a sonnet. He has a sense of success. He had never tried much for such success, but he definitely ... | In these chapters, we start to see the significance of one person's view of oneself for determining one's actions and preferences in the world. Isabel likes how she herself is seen by Gilbert Osmond; Gilbert Osmond likes how Lord Warburton sees Isabel, and decides that Isabel is worthy of being admired because of it; ... | 499 | 830 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_4.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30", "summary": "Isabel announces her intention to visit Pansy to Madame Merle, but Merle cautions her that it might not look appropriate, since Gilbert Osmond is a ... |
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... | 3,018 | Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-27-30 | Isabel announces her intention to visit Pansy to Madame Merle, but Merle cautions her that it might not look appropriate, since Gilbert Osmond is a bachelor. Isabel wonders what it matters, as Osmond is not there currently. Merle responds, "They don't know he's away, you see. Isabel asks whom she means. She responds, "... | In these chapters, we start to see the significance of one person's view of oneself for determining one's actions and preferences in the world. Isabel likes how she herself is seen by Gilbert Osmond; Gilbert Osmond likes how Lord Warburton sees Isabel, and decides that Isabel is worthy of being admired because of it; ... | 312 | 830 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_1.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35", "summary": "The chapter opens with Isabel sitting at a window of Mrs. Touchett's Palazzo Crescentini, waiting for someone. A year has passed since she had left ... |
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... | 3,923 | Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35 | The chapter opens with Isabel sitting at a window of Mrs. Touchett's Palazzo Crescentini, waiting for someone. A year has passed since she had left Florence: during this time, her sister and her sister's husband, the Ludlows, have visited her and toured Switzerland, Paris, and London with her. When they left, she felt ... | . It is notable too, that this reminiscence of Isabel's travels is contextualized in her mind's eye -- she is awaiting Caspar Goodwood, and thinking about how much she herself has changed since she last saw him. This is a common technique that Henry James employs: the narrator lends some more concrete words for the v... | 168 | 557 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 32 | chapter 32 | null | {"name": "Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35", "summary": "We learn that Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. Isabel tells her that she wishes he had not come. Mr. Goodwood tells her that after what she ha... |
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.... | 3,730 | Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35 | We learn that Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. Isabel tells her that she wishes he had not come. Mr. Goodwood tells her that after what she has done to him he shall never feel anything for the rest of his life - just what she has done to him. Isabel notes that she will have to prepare for Henrietta arriving, and ... | . It is notable too, that this reminiscence of Isabel's travels is contextualized in her mind's eye -- she is awaiting Caspar Goodwood, and thinking about how much she herself has changed since she last saw him. This is a common technique that Henry James employs: the narrator lends some more concrete words for the v... | 304 | 557 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_3.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35", "summary": "Isabel breaks the news of her engagement to Mrs. Touchett. Mrs. Touchett though, already seems to know. She blames Madame Merle, telling Isabel she ... |
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... | 3,634 | Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-31-35 | Isabel breaks the news of her engagement to Mrs. Touchett. Mrs. Touchett though, already seems to know. She blames Madame Merle, telling Isabel she now realizes that Merle only pretended to her that she would interfere if there were a danger that Isabel would marry Osmond. She thinks Merle has done something grand for ... | . It is notable too, that this reminiscence of Isabel's travels is contextualized in her mind's eye -- she is awaiting Caspar Goodwood, and thinking about how much she herself has changed since she last saw him. This is a common technique that Henry James employs: the narrator lends some more concrete words for the v... | 191 | 557 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 37 | chapter 37 | null | {"name": "Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-36-39", "summary": "Edward Rosier now stands in the palace where Isabel and Osmond live at some sort of social gathering. Osmond greets him, saying his wife will be out... |
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,... | 5,954 | Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-36-39 | Edward Rosier now stands in the palace where Isabel and Osmond live at some sort of social gathering. Osmond greets him, saying his wife will be out shortly. When we see Isabel through Edward's eyes, it seems that she has changed very little, imparting still that secret "lustre" of a valuable item. Edward Rosier lets I... | Many years have passed once Chapter 36 opens. It is an interesting technical choice on the part of James to begin this second part of his novel through the third-person point of view of Edward Rosier. Edward is not exactly an admirable character, and the narrator points out that his vision of Pansy is inaccurate. He... | 444 | 488 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_3.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 38 | chapter 38 | null | {"name": "Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-36-39", "summary": "Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle, who quickly forgives him for breaking his promise not to speak to Isabel. She tells him that he needs to onl... |
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... | 6,206 | Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-36-39 | Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle, who quickly forgives him for breaking his promise not to speak to Isabel. She tells him that he needs to only be patient and he may have a chance. She also warns him not to visit the house too often. Edward Rosier then skips one evening of the Thursday night gatherings at the Pal... | Many years have passed once Chapter 36 opens. It is an interesting technical choice on the part of James to begin this second part of his novel through the third-person point of view of Edward Rosier. Edward is not exactly an admirable character, and the narrator points out that his vision of Pansy is inaccurate. He... | 393 | 488 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_14_part_1.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 43 | chapter 43 | null | {"name": "Chapter 43", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-43-45", "summary": "Isabel takes Pansy to a dance, where she has been instructed by Osmond to keep watch over his daughter. While Pansy is dancing, Edward Rosier approa... |
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... | 6,204 | Chapter 43 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-43-45 | Isabel takes Pansy to a dance, where she has been instructed by Osmond to keep watch over his daughter. While Pansy is dancing, Edward Rosier approaches Isabel in a determined manner. We learn that Pansy has refused to dance with him. He sees a bouquet of pansies that Isabel is holding, and realizing that it must belon... | In Chapter 43, Isabel guesses that Warburton may act or abstain from acting on the basis of her own desires: and it is this that makes her refuse to force him to do so. They exchange a look that is very significant for indicating how psychological motivation of two people with good intentions can play off of each othe... | 435 | 491 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_15_part_1.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 46 | chapter 46 | null | {"name": "Chapter 46", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-46-47", "summary": "Osmond begins to think it is odd that Lord Warburton has not yet written to him to ask for Pansy's hand in marriage. Osmond asks Isabel to remind Lo... |
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... | 6,091 | Chapter 46 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-46-47 | Osmond begins to think it is odd that Lord Warburton has not yet written to him to ask for Pansy's hand in marriage. Osmond asks Isabel to remind Lord Warburton to write. Isabel tells him to do so himself. Osmond retorts that Isabel is working against him. Isabel begins to tremble. She notes, "How much you must want to... | Isabel's conversation with Osmond declares her intention not to help him in his quest to marry Pansy to Lord Warburton -- he accuses her then of taking a direct action against him. This is the beginning of an open confrontation with her husband that she has never before had, and which she had feared at the beginning o... | 471 | 337 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_17_part_1.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 50 | chapter 50 | null | {"name": "Chapter 50", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-50-51", "summary": "The Countess Gemini is visiting Isabel at the opening of this chapter. Pansy, Isabel and the Countess climb the Coliseum stairs together. Isabel not... |
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 ... | 4,419 | Chapter 50 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-50-51 | The Countess Gemini is visiting Isabel at the opening of this chapter. Pansy, Isabel and the Countess climb the Coliseum stairs together. Isabel notices, as Pansy and Countess ascend, that Edward Rosier is in the Coliseum as well, and he is watching them. He comes over to Isabel and tells her that he has sold all of hi... | Osmond's decision to send Pansy away is his attempt to exercise more control over Pansy and her understanding of the world. Pansy, ever the obedient daughter, does not take it bitterly and resolves herself to do what her father tells her. Osmond though wants to present his idea as if it is for his daughter's own inte... | 495 | 437 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_18_part_2.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 53 | chapter 53 | null | {"name": "Chapter 53", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-52-55", "summary": "On Isabel's journey to Gardencourt, she has many disconnected visions as she looks out the window -- not of what is outside, but rather she has \"si... |
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... | 4,812 | Chapter 53 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-52-55 | On Isabel's journey to Gardencourt, she has many disconnected visions as she looks out the window -- not of what is outside, but rather she has "sightless eyes. She thinks back to many memories and of her own expectations, realizing the mutual relations and interconnectedness of things that she did not notice before. T... | The scene between Madame Merle and Isabel in Chapter 52 is a very important one for understanding James' project. In the preface, he has declared that Isabel is made extraordinary by her perceptiveness. Yet, we have learned that she often does not see what is right in front of her, being willfully ignorant, and she o... | 290 | 445 |
2,833 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Portrait of a Lady/section_18_part_3.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 54 | chapter 54 | null | {"name": "Chapter 54", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-52-55", "summary": "Isabel's arrival in Gardencourt is as quiet as her first time there. She wonders to herself what would have happened to her if she had never met her... |
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... | 5,638 | Chapter 54 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180325075811/http://www.gradesaver.com/the-portrait-of-a-lady/study-guide/summary-chapters-52-55 | Isabel's arrival in Gardencourt is as quiet as her first time there. She wonders to herself what would have happened to her if she had never met her aunt - would she have married Caspar Goodwood. Mrs. Touchett comes to greet Isabel and inform her of Ralph's condition. He is not doing well, and Mrs. Touchett states that... | The scene between Madame Merle and Isabel in Chapter 52 is a very important one for understanding James' project. In the preface, he has declared that Isabel is made extraordinary by her perceptiveness. Yet, we have learned that she often does not see what is right in front of her, being willfully ignorant, and she o... | 345 | 445 |
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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 ... | 5,589 | Volume 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/volume-1-chapter-1 | Ralph Touchett, his father, and his friend Lord Warburton lounge on the spacious lawn of Gardencourt, the Touchett family's beautiful English estate, 40 miles from London. It's tea time. We meet the three gentlemen, all of whom are quite pleasant. Mr. Touchett, an American expatriate, still has the look of his countrym... | null | 503 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_1_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 2 | chapter 2 | null | {"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-2", "summary": "Ralph's little dog, Bunchie, runs toward the house, and Ralph sees a beautiful young woman approaching. We assume, as he does, that this is the indep... |
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... | 3,160 | Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-2 | Ralph's little dog, Bunchie, runs toward the house, and Ralph sees a beautiful young woman approaching. We assume, as he does, that this is the independent young cousin. Ralph and his cousin, Isabel Archer, get off to a friendly start. Isabel tells Ralph that he is to go to his mother's chambers at a quarter to seven. ... | null | 244 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_2_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 3 | chapter 3 | null | {"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-3", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett is a rather eccentric lady, and insists on things just as she likes them. For this reason, she keeps a house in Florence where she resi... |
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... | 4,598 | Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-3 | Mrs. Touchett is a rather eccentric lady, and insists on things just as she likes them. For this reason, she keeps a house in Florence where she resides, while Mr. Touchett stays in England at Gardencourt. Now that we've met our heroine, we get her back-story. Mrs. Touchett "discovered" Isabel at her deceased grandmoth... | null | 317 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_3_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-4", "summary": "Of the three Archer sisters, Lilian is thought to be the practical one, Edith the beautiful one, and Isabel the \"intellectual\" one. Lilian and Edit... |
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... | 3,750 | Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-4 | Of the three Archer sisters, Lilian is thought to be the practical one, Edith the beautiful one, and Isabel the "intellectual" one. Lilian and Edith are both married: Lilian lives happily in New York with her vociferous husband and children, while beautiful Edith lives somewhat less happily in the "unfashionable West" ... | null | 411 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_4_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-5", "summary": "Ralph and his mother exchange pleasantries. While they chat, we find out some details on Ralph's past. After attending both Harvard and Oxford , Ralp... |
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, ... | 6,728 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-5 | Ralph and his mother exchange pleasantries. While they chat, we find out some details on Ralph's past. After attending both Harvard and Oxford , Ralph took a position at his father's bank. At university, he was considered a very promising young man. Growing up, he admired his father more than anyone else. Sadly, Ralph ... | null | 504 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_5_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 6 | chapter 6 | null | {"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-6", "summary": "Finally, we get a detailed glimpse of young Miss Archer. Isabel thinks quite highly of herself - actually, everyone thinks quite highly of her. She's... |
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... | 5,044 | Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-6 | Finally, we get a detailed glimpse of young Miss Archer. Isabel thinks quite highly of herself - actually, everyone thinks quite highly of her. She's intelligent, creative, and, most certainly, in the words of Lord Warburton, an interesting woman. Her pride is one of her distinguishing characteristics - though it can c... | null | 354 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_7_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-8", "summary": "Lord Warburton invites Isabel over to his estate, Lockleigh. Mrs. Touchett and Ralph plan to go, too. Lord Warburton plans to have two of his sisters... |
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... | 3,759 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-8 | Lord Warburton invites Isabel over to his estate, Lockleigh. Mrs. Touchett and Ralph plan to go, too. Lord Warburton plans to have two of his sisters come and visit Isabel in the meanwhile. Lord Warburton has already given Isabel the run-down on his family: he has two brothers and four sisters, two unmarried and two ma... | null | 370 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_8_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-9", "summary": "Lord Warburton's unmarried sisters, the genteel Misses Molyneux, visit Gardencourt. Isabel is taken by them, appreciating their friendliness and lack... |
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... | 3,540 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-9 | Lord Warburton's unmarried sisters, the genteel Misses Molyneux, visit Gardencourt. Isabel is taken by them, appreciating their friendliness and lack of morbidity. The two sisters invite Isabel to Lockleigh for lunch. Isabel accepts, complimenting the sisters. Isabel tells Ralph that she'd like to be more like the two ... | null | 497 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_9_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-10", "summary": "Henrietta Stackpole writes Isabel from London to announce her arrival. Isabel arranges for her to visit Gardencourt. Ralph expresses his doubt in j... |
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... | 6,461 | Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-10 | Henrietta Stackpole writes Isabel from London to announce her arrival. Isabel arranges for her to visit Gardencourt. Ralph expresses his doubt in journalists, joking that Henrietta will probably write about their lives at Gardencourt. Isabel insists that she would not. Instead, she teasingly predicts that Ralph will fa... | null | 458 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_10_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 11 | chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-11", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett does not like Henrietta, whom she finds loud and presumptuous. Interestingly, one might say the same about a certain older American l... |
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... | 3,749 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-11 | Mrs. Touchett does not like Henrietta, whom she finds loud and presumptuous. Interestingly, one might say the same about a certain older American lady.... Henrietta and Mrs. Touchett get in a quarrel about American hotels - Henrietta says they are the very best and Mrs. Touchett claims they are the absolute worst. Ralp... | null | 385 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_11_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-12", "summary": "Isabel stands, not wanting Lord Warburton to sit with her. They begin taking a stroll. It's clear that Lord Warburton has something specific on his... |
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... | 5,859 | Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-12 | Isabel stands, not wanting Lord Warburton to sit with her. They begin taking a stroll. It's clear that Lord Warburton has something specific on his mind. Surprise! Lord Warburton professes his love for Isabel. He asks her to marry him. Isabel reflects on how romantic and perfect the moment would have seemed to her thre... | null | 222 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_12_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-13", "summary": "Isabel needs to talk to someone about the proposal, and she decides to confide in Mr. Touchett. Mr. Touchett already knows about the proposal becau... |
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... | 8,036 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-13 | Isabel needs to talk to someone about the proposal, and she decides to confide in Mr. Touchett. Mr. Touchett already knows about the proposal because Lord Warburton wrote him a letter stating his intentions. Mr. Touchett figures Isabel is waiting to see if a better man comes along, but Isabel insists that she is not se... | null | 441 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/15.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_14_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 15 | chapter 15 | null | {"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-15", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett would have liked Isabel to accept Lord Warburton's marriage proposal. She thinks that Englishmen have their uses. Ralph accompanies I... |
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 ... | 8,233 | Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-15 | Mrs. Touchett would have liked Isabel to accept Lord Warburton's marriage proposal. She thinks that Englishmen have their uses. Ralph accompanies Isabel and Henrietta to London. The ladies stay at Pratt's Hotel, while Ralph stays in one of the Touchett family's other houses at Winchester Square. Henrietta is disappoint... | null | 433 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/16.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_15_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-16", "summary": "Isabel is in desperate need of some alone time - a lot has happened in her world recently. Unexpectedly, Caspar Goodwood arrives. Henrietta apparen... |
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... | 6,256 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-16 | Isabel is in desperate need of some alone time - a lot has happened in her world recently. Unexpectedly, Caspar Goodwood arrives. Henrietta apparently wrote to him and let him know that Isabel would be alone that evening. Kind of sneaky, sure; but, hey - that's Henrietta. Caspar Goodwood asks Isabel why she never wrote... | null | 476 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_16_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-17", "summary": "Isabel trembles in the aftermath of turning down Bachelor #2. Although she is shaken, Isabel is also proud that she has demonstrated the thing she ... |
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... | 3,827 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-17 | Isabel trembles in the aftermath of turning down Bachelor #2. Although she is shaken, Isabel is also proud that she has demonstrated the thing she has wanted all along: freedom. She feels as though she has proved something to herself and to Caspar. Henrietta returns, and Isabel is understandably short with her. She say... | null | 427 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_17_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-18", "summary": "Ralph and Isabel return to Gardencourt. Isabel, concerned about her uncle, seeks out her aunt. Isabel hears music playing and assumes it is Ralph 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... | 8,494 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-18 | Ralph and Isabel return to Gardencourt. Isabel, concerned about her uncle, seeks out her aunt. Isabel hears music playing and assumes it is Ralph playing the piano. To her surprise, she finds a lovely stranger playing Schubert on the piano. The stranger is Madame Merle, Mrs. Touchett's good friend. She is American, but... | null | 443 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_19_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-20", "summary": "Some weeks later, Madame Merle goes to Winchester Square, only to find that its house is up for sale. The narrator lets us in on some unkind though... |
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... | 7,474 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-20 | Some weeks later, Madame Merle goes to Winchester Square, only to find that its house is up for sale. The narrator lets us in on some unkind thoughts Madame Merle has about Mrs. Touchett. We begin to wonder what Madame Merle thinks of everyone else behind their backs. Mrs. Touchett leaves the auction of her husband's e... | null | 390 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_20_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-21", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett goes to San Remo, Italy to visit Ralph. Isabel decides to go with her, figuring it's better to travel with a relation, even with her ... |
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... | 3,542 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-21 | Mrs. Touchett goes to San Remo, Italy to visit Ralph. Isabel decides to go with her, figuring it's better to travel with a relation, even with her newfound financial independence. Isabel is no longer as impressed with Mrs. Touchett as she was when her aunt first visited her in New York. Isabel asks Ralph whether he kne... | null | 255 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_22_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-23", "summary": "Madame Merle returns to Palazzo Crescentini, Mrs. Touchett's home in Florence. Madame Merle recommends Osmond to Isabel once more, telling her of h... |
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... | 4,870 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-23 | Madame Merle returns to Palazzo Crescentini, Mrs. Touchett's home in Florence. Madame Merle recommends Osmond to Isabel once more, telling her of his impressive traits. She ominously tells Isabel that she should interact with more men, so that she gets "used" to them - that is to say, so she learns which ones to despis... | null | 492 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_23_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-24", "summary": "It is springtime in Italy, and Isabel comes to visit Casa Osmond. Isabel meets Pansy and Osmond's sister, Countess Gemini. Countess Gemini, a bird-... |
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... | 7,844 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-24 | It is springtime in Italy, and Isabel comes to visit Casa Osmond. Isabel meets Pansy and Osmond's sister, Countess Gemini. Countess Gemini, a bird-like creature, is a real hoot . The Countess passive-aggressively states that she never visits her brother, because he never invites her, but that she came mainly to meet Is... | null | 442 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_24_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-25", "summary": "Left to their own devices, Countess Gemini and Madame Merle let their claws out. Unfortunately, the Countess' claws are much duller and less effect... |
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... | 3,337 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-25 | Left to their own devices, Countess Gemini and Madame Merle let their claws out. Unfortunately, the Countess' claws are much duller and less effective than Madame Merle's. Countess Gemini sees that Madame Merle is trying to set up Osmond and Isabel, and she doesn't like the looks of it. Countess Gemini thinks that Mada... | null | 497 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_29_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-30", "summary": "Isabel leaves Rome with Ralph to return to Florence. Henrietta stays in Rome to go on to Naples with the amiable and ever-game Mr. Bantling. In the... |
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... | 3,018 | Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-30 | Isabel leaves Rome with Ralph to return to Florence. Henrietta stays in Rome to go on to Naples with the amiable and ever-game Mr. Bantling. In the couple of days before June 4th , Isabel decides to pay a visit to Pansy. Madame Merle has been at Mrs. Touchett's in Florence all the while. Isabel tells Madame Merle that ... | null | 473 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_30_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-31", "summary": "Time flies - a year has passed since we last saw Isabel. The narrator fills us in on some of Isabel's activities and adventures. Isabel's sister, L... |
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... | 3,923 | Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-31 | Time flies - a year has passed since we last saw Isabel. The narrator fills us in on some of Isabel's activities and adventures. Isabel's sister, Lily, and her children came to visit Isabel in Paris and London. Lily thinks Isabel has changed, but not in the way that she had expected. Lily's husband, Edmund, comes to En... | null | 364 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_32_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-33", "summary": "Isabel goes to breakfast and prepares to tell Mrs. Touchett the shocking news. Mrs. Touchett, not one to be shocked, already knows - apparently, wi... |
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... | 3,634 | Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-33 | Isabel goes to breakfast and prepares to tell Mrs. Touchett the shocking news. Mrs. Touchett, not one to be shocked, already knows - apparently, with her innate meddling radar, she could just feel it in the air. She disapproves, and blames Madame Merle for betraying her. Isabel doesn't see what Madame Merle has to do w... | null | 317 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_33_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 34 | chapter 34 | null | {"name": "Chapter 34", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-34", "summary": "It's a beautiful afternoon, and Isabel sees Ralph sitting outside. Ralph apologizes for not having congratulated Isabel on her engagement. Ralph sa... |
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... | 5,138 | Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-34 | It's a beautiful afternoon, and Isabel sees Ralph sitting outside. Ralph apologizes for not having congratulated Isabel on her engagement. Ralph says that he's surprised that Isabel's allowed herself to be caught in a cage. Isabel says that she's done with exploring the world. She wants to create her own space now, and... | null | 476 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_36_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 37 | chapter 37 | null | {"name": "Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-37", "summary": "Rosier goes to greet Osmond, who is standing by the fireplace. Osmond is insufferably rude to him, and suggests crudely that he has nothing in his ... |
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,... | 5,954 | Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-37 | Rosier goes to greet Osmond, who is standing by the fireplace. Osmond is insufferably rude to him, and suggests crudely that he has nothing in his collection that he wants to match - including Pansy. Rosier implies to Isabel that he is interested in Pansy. He wonders if he has gone against his promise to Madame Merle a... | null | 442 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_39_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 40 | chapter 40 | null | {"name": "Chapter 40", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-40", "summary": "Madame Merle hasn't been around Rome much; she's made herself scarce. Madame Merle comes to visit in the winter. The dynamic between Madame Merle a... |
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... | 7,290 | Chapter 40 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-40 | Madame Merle hasn't been around Rome much; she's made herself scarce. Madame Merle comes to visit in the winter. The dynamic between Madame Merle and Isabel has shifted. Isabel is now more aware of Ralph's complaint about Madame Merle, which was that she exaggerates too much. For the past three years, Isabel has ponder... | null | 399 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_40_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 41 | chapter 41 | null | {"name": "Chapter 41", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-41", "summary": "Lord Warburton calls on the Osmond household often to visit with Isabel and Pansy. Isabel is open to the idea of Pansy marrying the lord, but think... |
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... | 4,478 | Chapter 41 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-41 | Lord Warburton calls on the Osmond household often to visit with Isabel and Pansy. Isabel is open to the idea of Pansy marrying the lord, but thinks of what a shame it is that Rosier will be hurt. She wants to please Osmond. We're disturbed by her abused-wife mentality.... Isabel considers leaving Lord Warburton and Pa... | null | 185 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_41_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 42 | chapter 42 | null | {"name": "Chapter 42", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-42", "summary": "Isabel is doing a lot of thinking. We learn about her thoughts on her marriage to Osmond and Lord Warburton's pursuit of Pansy. Isabel wonders if s... |
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... | 7,687 | Chapter 42 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-42 | Isabel is doing a lot of thinking. We learn about her thoughts on her marriage to Osmond and Lord Warburton's pursuit of Pansy. Isabel wonders if she gave a false image of herself to Osmond when they first got involved. Isabel feels certain that Osmond hates her, because she doesn't have a sense of "tradition." Well, o... | null | 273 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_42_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 43 | chapter 43 | null | {"name": "Chapter 43", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-43", "summary": "Isabel accompanies Pansy to a fancy ball, where they once again encounter both Rosier and Lord Warburton. Isabel can tell that Rosier really does l... |
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... | 6,204 | Chapter 43 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-43 | Isabel accompanies Pansy to a fancy ball, where they once again encounter both Rosier and Lord Warburton. Isabel can tell that Rosier really does love Pansy, and that staying away from her tortures him. Osmond has ordered Pansy not to dance with him, and, of course, Pansy obeys. Isabel kindly allows Rosier to take a si... | null | 453 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_43_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 44 | chapter 44 | null | {"name": "Chapter 44", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-44", "summary": "Countess Gemini has been invited to stay at the Osmonds' for a couple of weeks. The Countess is fond of Isabel, although she and her brother have a... |
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... | 8,298 | Chapter 44 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-44 | Countess Gemini has been invited to stay at the Osmonds' for a couple of weeks. The Countess is fond of Isabel, although she and her brother have a mutual dislike for one another. She hopes to find that Osmond has met his match in Isabel. Henrietta visits Countess Gemini, asking whether she knows of Isabel's situation.... | null | 270 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_44_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 45 | chapter 45 | null | {"name": "Chapter 45", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-45", "summary": "Isabel goes to visit Ralph, knowing full well that Osmond doesn't approve of it. Isabel asks Ralph about Lord Warburton, and Ralph admits that he i... |
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, ... | 5,967 | Chapter 45 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-45 | Isabel goes to visit Ralph, knowing full well that Osmond doesn't approve of it. Isabel asks Ralph about Lord Warburton, and Ralph admits that he is very much in love... but with Isabel, not Pansy. Isabel laments that Ralph is not helping her, which is the one instance in which she suggests that she actually needs help... | null | 377 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_45_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 46 | chapter 46 | null | {"name": "Chapter 46", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-46", "summary": "Lord Warburton has not called or written, and Osmond, ever the pessimist, holds Isabel responsible. Osmond assumes that Isabel has a hand in Warbur... |
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... | 6,091 | Chapter 46 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-46 | Lord Warburton has not called or written, and Osmond, ever the pessimist, holds Isabel responsible. Osmond assumes that Isabel has a hand in Warburton's sudden absence, and demands that she correct it. At this fortuitous moment, Lord Warburton arrives at the Osmonds' and announces his departure for England. He invites ... | null | 341 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_46_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 47 | chapter 47 | null | {"name": "Chapter 47", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-47", "summary": "Madame Merle has gone to Naples. Henrietta visits Isabel and tells her that Caspar is in town. He has yet to contact Isabel. Isabel worries about s... |
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... | 7,564 | Chapter 47 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-47 | Madame Merle has gone to Naples. Henrietta visits Isabel and tells her that Caspar is in town. He has yet to contact Isabel. Isabel worries about seeing Caspar again, since she feels like he had invested all of his happiness in her. Henrietta is a welcome addition to Isabel's life - she can actually talk honestly with ... | null | 387 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_48_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 49 | chapter 49 | null | {"name": "Chapter 49", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-49", "summary": "The sly Madame Merle comes to visit Isabel. Madame Merle asks Isabel about Lord Warburton's whereabouts. She is clearly disappointed and surprised ... |
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... | 6,836 | Chapter 49 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-49 | The sly Madame Merle comes to visit Isabel. Madame Merle asks Isabel about Lord Warburton's whereabouts. She is clearly disappointed and surprised that things had not been better arranged for Pansy. Isabel feels suspicious toward Madame Merle now, ever since she caught her and Osmond in intimate conversation. That imag... | null | 374 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_49_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 50 | chapter 50 | null | {"name": "Chapter 50", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-50", "summary": "Isabel sometimes goes with the Countess Gemini to tour Rome. This way, Isabel has a chance of listening to Countess Gemini ramble about something o... |
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 ... | 4,419 | Chapter 50 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-50 | Isabel sometimes goes with the Countess Gemini to tour Rome. This way, Isabel has a chance of listening to Countess Gemini ramble about something other than social gossip. Pansy joins them on this particular trip to the Coliseum. Isabel sees Rosier there, who tells her that he has sold all of his art collection , and t... | null | 482 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_50_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 51 | chapter 51 | null | {"name": "Chapter 51", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-51", "summary": "Mrs. Touchett telegrams Isabel, notifying her of Ralph's imminent death. She asks Isabel to come to Gardencourt. Isabel goes to Osmond to let him k... |
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 ... | 8,935 | Chapter 51 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-51 | Mrs. Touchett telegrams Isabel, notifying her of Ralph's imminent death. She asks Isabel to come to Gardencourt. Isabel goes to Osmond to let him know that she's going. Osmond forbids her to go. Osmond tells her that it would be an indecent thing to go against his wishes, as they are still a married couple, like it or ... | null | 463 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_51_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 52 | chapter 52 | null | {"name": "Chapter 52", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-52", "summary": "Isabel decides to visit Pansy before going to see Ralph. She runs into Madame Merle at the convent. Madame Merle suddenly knows that Isabel has cha... |
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... | 5,820 | Chapter 52 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-52 | Isabel decides to visit Pansy before going to see Ralph. She runs into Madame Merle at the convent. Madame Merle suddenly knows that Isabel has changed: she knows her secret. Isabel tells Madame Merle that she is going to Gardencourt to see Ralph after leaving the convent. Isabel tells Pansy that she is leaving for Eng... | null | 387 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_52_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 53 | chapter 53 | null | {"name": "Chapter 53", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-53", "summary": "Henrietta greets Isabel at the train station in England. On the train ride, Isabel couldn't think clearly. She actually envies Ralph's death - she ... |
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... | 4,812 | Chapter 53 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-53 | Henrietta greets Isabel at the train station in England. On the train ride, Isabel couldn't think clearly. She actually envies Ralph's death - she would rather die than live her life as it is. Lady Pensil will come to visit Henrietta, though she never did invite Henrietta to visit her. On that note, Henrietta has some ... | null | 186 | 1 |
2,833 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/The Portrait of a Lady/section_53_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapter 54 | chapter 54 | null | {"name": "Chapter 54", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-54", "summary": "Isabel arrives at Gardencourt, which is quiet and solemn. Mrs. Touchett finally greets Isabel after waiting for the nurse to come back and tend to ... |
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... | 5,638 | Chapter 54 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210508161644/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/portrait-of-a-lady/summary/chapter-54 | Isabel arrives at Gardencourt, which is quiet and solemn. Mrs. Touchett finally greets Isabel after waiting for the nurse to come back and tend to Ralph. Isabel wonders what life would have been like if Mrs. Touchett had never met her in New York; perhaps she would have married Caspar Goodwood. Mrs. Touchett tells Isab... | null | 334 | 1 |
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... | 8,020 | 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 | 503 | 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 ... | 8,748 | 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,... | 345 | 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... | 8,347 | 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... | 275 | 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, ... | 6,728 | 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... | 317 | 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... | 10,361 | 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... | 436 | 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... | 7,298 | 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... | 319 | 222 |
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... | 8,036 | 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... | 355 | 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... | 5,372 | 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... | 330 | 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 ... | 14,488 | 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 ... | 426 | 315 |
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... | 3,542 | 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... | 168 | 64 |
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... | 11,180 | 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... | 310 | 305 |
2,833 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/2833-chapters/chapters_29_to_31.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Portrait of a Lady/section_15_part_0.txt | The Portrait of a Lady.chapters 29-31 | chapters 29-31 | null | {"name": "Chapters 29-31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219150527/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-portrait-of-a-lady/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2931", "summary": "Shortly after Lord Warburton leaves, Isabel receives a note from her aunt inviting her for a visit to another part of Italy. Isab... |
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... | 11,791 | 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 ... | 392 | 354 |
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 ... | 6,918 | 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... | 416 | 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... | 11,767 | 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... | 426 | 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... | 7,687 | 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... | 428 | 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... | 6,204 | 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... | 264 | 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... | 8,298 | 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. | 221 | 45 |
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... | 16,417 | 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... | 356 | 164 |
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... | 5,820 | 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... | 196 | 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... | 10,449 | 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... | 356 | 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... | 8,020 | 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... | 278 | 151 |
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... | 5,318 | 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 ... | 489 | 222 |
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... | 3,540 | 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... | 454 | 120 |
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... | 3,749 | 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... | 403 | 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... | 5,859 | 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... | 497 | 213 |
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... | 3,337 | 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 ... | 441 | 108 |
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