- “There are drawbacks to having a St. Elizabeth for a sister” — Robert Elsemere's Catherine Leyburn
- Catherine Elsmere survives childbirth
- The reader first encounters Robert Elsemere
- Ward's description of Rose Leyburn in terms of painting and the decorative arts
- “The nexus of the structure is to be found wholly in the workings of character” — Gladstone
- The death of Mary Backhouse
- “Well, if she was inconsequent, she was dear!” — The diminishing of Eugénie in Mary Augusta Ward's Fenwick's Career
- Does Mary Ward really relegate Catherine "to the realm of the emotions" at the end of Robert Elsemere
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