The Emancipated

Miriam Kauffman is the emancipated wife; it is her gift to maintain at last her own voice in a voice of marriage; yet the husband is the master of the hours.

Mosley Marsh's emancipated wife Miriam Kauffman / cultural circle 'Wedderburn' = plot 79.

Miriam Kauffman is the emancipated wife, yet she returns to Mosley; a more modern wife, but the question is not less complex.

Miriam Kauffman emancipated wife + Wedderburn artistic circles + Wager painter-gentleman = cast 80.

[L]abourers and their new lives; and the slow pivot of courtship in that circle, more certain than all the chic phrase about emancipation.

23 chapters, slow pivot; middle sections slow = pace 76.

[T]he little evenings in Wedderburn's drawing-room are a kind of map of the new men and women: a hundred thousand of them would fill a continent, but they are mapped for the curious.

Heavy diction under emotional tension; emancipation vs practical English restraint = prose 86.

[T]hat London circle is in part the new country the wife is to go to and the husband is not.

Provincial intellectual + London artistic-and-reform scenes = world 85.

Miriam Kauffman is the emancipated wife; it is her gift to maintain at last her own voice in a voice of marriage.

'Miriam Kauffman' emancipated wife as opening salutation = hook 84.

[T]he question of emancipation in a working house and a working man, the labours of being 'free'—and the noonday doubts of a new wife.

Late-Gissing: a novel of the new-woman question in an intellectual salon = innov 81.

[H]e has said it for his own and her close; and the end is a new love in an old house, a new marriage in a new key.

'The Close' re-marriage: Mosley proposes again = ending 80.