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Elizabeth is the daughter of the Colonel and Anne Bradford, the local gentry who haughtily preside over life in Eyam. Elizabeth is pretentious and unpleasant towards everyone of lower social standing, but she’s somewhat redeemed by her gentleness toward her timid mother, and her efforts to protect her from her father’s abuse. When Anna works as a maid in the Bradford house, Elizabeth takes pleasure in bossing her around, but ultimately it’s Elizabeth who has to beg for Anna’s help in delivering her mother’s illegitimate baby, demonstrating how much class dynamics have shifted as a result of the plague.
Elizabeth Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
The Year of Wonders quotes below are all either spoken by Elizabeth Bradford or refer to Elizabeth Bradford . 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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As hard as I willed it, I could not draw up anything to follow: no formal supplication, no Bible verse, no scrap of liturgy. All of the texts and Psalms and orisons I had by rote were gone from me, erased, as surely as hard-learned words written with painful effort onto a slate can be licked away with the lazy swipe of a dampened rag.
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Elizabeth Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
The Year of Wonders quotes below are all either spoken by Elizabeth Bradford or refer to Elizabeth Bradford . 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:
).
Part 3: Apple-Picking Time
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As hard as I willed it, I could not draw up anything to follow: no formal supplication, no Bible verse, no scrap of liturgy. All of the texts and Psalms and orisons I had by rote were gone from me, erased, as surely as hard-learned words written with painful effort onto a slate can be licked away with the lazy swipe of a dampened rag.
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