This is one of my favourite Agatha Christie stories!

Also: the information on how to access the 'new' Microsoft account is only available in the 'new' account, so if you can't access it, you can't find out how to access it... #Catch22

Yeah, ”almost”… 🤓

Grill extends the metaphor of the Victorian asylum to include Audley court and reads Lady Audley herself as a character who wields medical agency instead of as a patient/mad person.
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"In order to erase her past, Lady Audley erases herself"
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Shevchenko also presents ideas of how Lady Audley can be seen as a vampire figure: female vampirism is linked to violent appetites, predatory sexuality, hysteria and dangerously insatiable women. #VPFAExtremes

"Anorexic vocabulary" is used to describe Lady Audley and how her secret 'eats' her (pun definitely intended!). Eating tropes are also used to drive suspense and as plot structure.
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Carina Koh Hui Ling calls 'The Fatal Three' a "cautionary tale of subverting gender-specific expectations", as Mildred becomes unwell towards the end of the novel, and it is unclear whether this deterioration is a 'punishment' for going against gender expectiations or not.
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Victorian belief was that men were better at managing their emotions as they had greater wills and mental faculties, and women were unstable and unpredictable because of their reproductive systems. Also, women were expected to suppress their emotions and men to actively regulate theirs
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