Dorothea Finds Her Husband in the Garden

Dorothea Finds Her Husband in the Garden

(Signed top right) William Ladd Taylor, American, 1854-1926

c.1888

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Seguin, np.

Dorothea was reluctant to promise Casaubon that she would continue the "ghastly labour" entailed by his scholarly work after his death. But when she decides that it is her duty to do so, and goes to tell him so, she finds that she is too late: he has died (see Book V. The Dead Hand).

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