The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.