1 Quotes by Marianne Thormählen

To Lucy Snowe, 'Romanism' is 'a great mixed image of gold and clay', and the latter quality is particularly evident in the bartering deals where material comforts and peace of mind are acquired at the expense of spiritual liberty. The horrors of this exchange are articulated with a warmth which springs directly from the hatred of oppression that informs all the Bronte novels.