...thrown into relief by poor dress. HIT hand und wrist were so fmely formed timt she could wearsleevcs not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Itulhm painters ; and her profile us well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain tho more diguity...

...this subject. They occur in the opening chapter of " Middle, march." The author says that the heroine, Miss Brooke, " had that kind of beauty which seems...be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrists were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which...

...woman. Reach constantly nt something- that Is near It." — The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AMD FLETCHER. Miss BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to...which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; aud her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments,...

...most women to disregard the mandates of fashion, for she had, we are told, that kind 01 beauty that seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. " Her hand and her wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less devoid of style than those in...

...deeds_a,nd prove herself worthy, disdaining dress and the frivolities of life that delighted Celia. She " had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress . . . her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial...

...fact, first presented to the reader in reference to another woman and a painting: we are told that "her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she...the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters." 15 The phrase "not less bare of style," which draws attention to itself through its meticulous accuracy...

...imagined to say (as she wrote of her heroines Dorothea, Romola, Maggie, and Gwendolen): "Virginia Woolf 'had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. . . . She was open, ardent, and not in the least self-admiring; . . . her imagination adorned her sister...

...he looked at her. She was pretty" (Hard Times, bk. I, chap. 3). It gives us Eliot's Dorothea Brooke: "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress" (Middlemarch, bk. I, chap. 1). It gives us Isabel Archer: "The young lady seemed to have a great deal...

...immediately signals that attention to clothing reveals one's commonness with its opening observation: "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." It first routes that sartorial choice through a social semiotic ("The Pride of being ladies had something...

...towards adornment. I Dorothea disdains the kind of attention to dress that Middlemarch openly displays: "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress" (p. 29). She dresses plainly and scorns attempts at achieving "mere effect" (p. 114); Eliot, however,...