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A Romani dancer whom Orlando supposedly marries the night before he changes into a woman in Constantinople. Rosina never actually appears in the story and is only referred to, and she is another example of Orlando’s taste for “low company.” Orlando is said to have fathered three sons with Rosina, and they later sue Orlando for their father’s estate (they claim that their father is dead, and Orlando’s assets are rightfully theirs). After the courts declare Orlando officially a woman, the marriage to Rosina is annulled, and the children declared illegitimate.
Rosina Pepita Quotes in Orlando
The Orlando quotes below are all either spoken by Rosina Pepita or refer to Rosina Pepita. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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No sooner had she returned to her home in Blackfriars than she was made aware of a succession of Bow Street runners and other grave emissaries from the Law Courts that she was a party to three major suits which had been preferred against her during her absence, as well as innumerable minor litigations, some arising out of, others depending on them. The chief charges against her were (1) that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property whatsoever; (2) that she was a woman, which amounts to much the same thing; (3) that she was an English Duke who had married one Rosina Pepita, a dancer; and had had by her three sons, which sons now declaring that their father was deceased, claimed that all his property descended to them. Such grave charges as these would, of course, take time and money to dispose of. All her estates were put in Chancery and her tides pronounced in abeyance while the suits were under litigation.
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Rosina Pepita Quotes in Orlando
The Orlando quotes below are all either spoken by Rosina Pepita or refer to Rosina Pepita. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4
Quotes
No sooner had she returned to her home in Blackfriars than she was made aware of a succession of Bow Street runners and other grave emissaries from the Law Courts that she was a party to three major suits which had been preferred against her during her absence, as well as innumerable minor litigations, some arising out of, others depending on them. The chief charges against her were (1) that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property whatsoever; (2) that she was a woman, which amounts to much the same thing; (3) that she was an English Duke who had married one Rosina Pepita, a dancer; and had had by her three sons, which sons now declaring that their father was deceased, claimed that all his property descended to them. Such grave charges as these would, of course, take time and money to dispose of. All her estates were put in Chancery and her tides pronounced in abeyance while the suits were under litigation.
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