Ah, it’s That Chapter in Brickclub! I always find this post to be enormously helpful in understanding thecultural context for Mme. T’s novels here. I actually wish it wasn’t all behind a cut, it’s just so much useful context!–Especially the bit about how a lot of the novels Hugo’s citing were by men “legitimizing” fictional forms women created by …writing the same thing but being men, and by how the specific narrative through-line of them ties in with Mme T’s expectations for herself and her girls.
on the Thenardier women and cultural narratives
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