Two Cities OCS – Old Curiosity Shop MC – Martin Chuzzlewit D&S – Dombey and Son PP – Pickwick Papers OT – Oliver Twist HT – Hard Times OMF – Our Mutual Friend BR – Barnaby Rudge LD – Little Dorrit DC – David Copperfield UT – Uncommercial Traveller List of Abbreviations Used
Eve in their tending of each other;…...that freemasonry of fainting by which they are generally bound together in a mysterious bond of sisterhood….” (D&S) The Sisterhood of Fainting
mentioned” (BR) Being threatened “..the males turned pale, and the females fainted.” (PP) Being saved “…Barbara,……..is, found to be in a swoon by herself in the back parlour.” (OCS) Offering marriage “…she (witness) fainted away stone dead when Mr. Saunders asked her to name the day, and believed that everybody as called herself a lady would do the same, under such circumstances” (PP) Actually marrying “….Miss Petowker…encountered the youthful bridegroom then she fainted away with great decorum.” (NN) Men Causing Faints
“He stood with his lovely burden in his arms, gazing vacantly at the countenance of his friends….They in turn stared at him” (PP) “Mr. Sikes tried a little blasphemy, and finding that mode of treatment wholly ineffectual, called for assistance” (OT) Men’s Incompetence
off and leave her to progress on the floor. He next had recourse to the administration of potent restoratives, such as screwing the patient’s thumbs, smiting her hands, abundantly watering her face, and inserting salt in her mouth.” (HT) “Mr. Sampson….raised her prostrate form, and handed her to Mrs. Wilfer as if the young lady were something in the nature of refreshments.” (OMF) Men’s Incompetence
(LD) “Miss Betsy, who opportunely arrived to throw water over her friend and perform other feminine offices for the promotion of her recovery” (OT) “Why don’t you go and fetch things? I’ll let you know if you don’t bring smelling salts, cold water, and vinegar, quick I will.” (TTC) Female Assistance
tended her with great skill and gentleness” (TTC) “she was accordingly supported into the coach, and then ‘kept up’ with perpetual sniffs of sal volatile and sips of brandy and other gentle stimulants…” (NN) “she was there deposited on a sofa, and the lady from the first floor running up to the first floor returned with a bottle of sal volatile which she applied in all womanly kindness and pity to her nose…” (PP) Female Assistance
she is hardly a bit better….being experienced matrons and acute at perceiving the first drawing symptoms of recovery..” (OCS) “she formed a sort of Coat of Arms, grouped with a smelling bottle, a handkerchief, an orange, a bottle of vinegar, Flanders’ sister, her own sister, Flanders’ brother’s wife, and two neighbouring gossips – all in mourning, and all ready to hold her whenever she fainted. (UT) Female Assistance
the young lady, by laying a hand upon his chest, and sending him flying back against the nearest wall” (TTC) “they comfort Kit with the assurance that ‘she’ll do now’ and so dismiss him to the place whence he came.” (OCS) “All the ladies concurred in this opinion; so Mr Raddle was pushed out of the room and requested to give himself an airing in the back yard. Which he did for about a quarter of an hour, when Mrs Bardell announced to him the he might come in now” (PP) Men’s Exclusion
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