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Originally Posted by hankster
Hope you dont mind but i told my t about this. That it describes how i felt about getting a card in the mail from my mother over the weekend. Its pretty excellent.
I used the word "foppish" today in session to describe a young female character in a Louisa May Alcott novel - Eight Cousins - its not very well known - and t stopped me! I said, okay, the word is usually used to describe a male. Now i have to look it up. Anyway, after the girl started eating oatmeal for breakfast, and by the end of the book, she no longer wore velvet and was no longer foppish  we were discussing my long term constipation issues! |
Eight Cousins! I loved that as a child. Not so much when I re-read it the other year - I think the translation I had was also abbreviated and had removed a lot of the "all girls are weak lilies" stuff. (I know I've confessed before to never being able to get through
Little Women.)
And I don't really think Rose was foppish. Vapid is the adjective I'd use. It's kind of weird to use "fop" about a woman, at least in a historical context, but that aside, she's pretty much a wet blanket when the book starts, and becomes more of a real person (although still a wet blanket by today's standards.) She still had "feminine virtues" though, and was much more vain and aware of her looks, as far as I can remember (I hated that part, still do), which is really the core of foppishness.