Lady Anna

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar. As the ceremony was transferred from Bloomsbury, London, to Yoxham, in Yorkshire, a licence had been procured, and the banns of which Daniel Thwaite thought so much, had been called in vain.

Plot resolves legitimacy/romance war as transferred Yorkshire wedding — promise kept against Bloomsbury form — so plot scores 88.

to marry a tailor! "Duty is duty," said aunt Julia as she hurried away. She meant her nephew to understand that duty commanded her to shut her heart against any cousin who could marry a tailor.

Aunt Julia's duty = class exclusion — cast opposition named as moral duty against trade — so cast scores 87.

After the scene which was described in the last chapter there was a very sad time indeed in Keppel Street. The Countess had been advised by the Serjeant and Mrs. Bluestone to take her daughter immediately abroad, in the event of the interview with Daniel Thwaite being unsatisfactory.

Abroad-or-die advice after unsatisfactory tailor interview — crisis pace inside Keppel Street — so pace scores 84.

Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands of Earl Lovel, to whom she was married in the parish church of Applethwaite,--a parish without a village, lying among the mountains of Cumberland

Superlative cruelty thesis in parish geography — forensic social prose — so prose scores 86.

well-known Radical in a county in which Radicals have never been popular, and in which fifty years ago they were much rarer than they are now. At this time Keswick and its vicinities were beginning to be known as the abodes of poets, and Thomas Thwaite was acquainted with Southey and Wordsworth.

Keswick Radical tailor among poets — Lakes world as political oddity — so world scores 85.

Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands of Earl Lovel

Hardest-usage claim before Lady Anna exists — hook as maternal wrong — so hook scores 89.

Of course there are differences in aristocratic marriages. All earls' daughters are not married at St. George's, Hanover Square, nor is it absolutely necessary that a bishop should tie the knot, or that the dresses should be described in a newspaper.

Narrator theorises flexible aristocratic form to legitimise tailor match — class comedy as aesthetic argument — so innov scores 90.

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar. As the ceremony was transferred from Bloomsbury, London, to Yoxham, in Yorkshire, a licence had been procured, and the banns of which Daniel Thwaite thought so much, had been called in vain.

Licence over banns; Lady Anna still led to altar with tailor — ending seals class-inversion vow — so ending scores 87.