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A linked set of short narratives probes women's emotional and psychological lives at moments of longing, disillusionment, and quiet revolt against social expectations. Scenes move between intimate domestic encounters and solitary communion with nature, rendered in vivid, impressionistic prose that privileges mood and sensory detail over linear plot. Recurrent themes include marital alienation, sexual awakening, and the tensions between convention and individual desire. The stories frequently end ambiguously, emphasizing interior revelation and moral unease rather than tidy resolution. Overall, the writing foregrounds psychological observation and lyrical description to illuminate changing attitudes toward gender and intimacy.

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Title: Keynotes

Author: George Egerton

Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley

Release date: November 22, 2024 [eBook #74778]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894

Credits: Sonya Schermann, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Keynotes

By George Egerton

Boston: Roberts Brothers
London: Elkin Mathews
and John Lane, Vigo St.

1894

Copyright, 1893,
By Roberts Brothers.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

TO
KNUT HAMSUN,
In memory of a day when the west wind
and the rainbow met.

1892-1893.


"Fancies are toys of the brain, to write them down is to destroy them—as fancies! and yet—"

"I gave him such a pretty toy to play with, and he is breaking it up. When I say: 'You are very naughty, Biff; if you break it I shall whip you!' he only says:

"'But I must, Mumsey, I must!'"

Fragment of a Letter, 1893.


CONTENTS.

A CROSS LINE.
NOW SPRING HAS COME.
THE SPELL OF THE WHITE ELF.
A LITTLE GRAY GLOVE.
AN EMPTY FRAME.
UNDER NORTHERN SKY.
   I.How Marie Larsen Exorcised a Demon
  II.A Shadow's Slant
 III.An Ebb Tide

KEYNOTES.