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Miss Crawley is an elderly unmarried woman with a large fortune, and this causes many different members of the Crawley family to try to win her over before she dies, including Bute, Mrs. Bute, Sir Pitt, Pitt Crawley, Rawdon, and Becky. Paradoxically, her fortune both causes and prevents fighting within the family, as various family members try to win her favor by proving that they are agreeable. Although Miss Crawley likes to talk about how she doesn’t believe in hereditary nobility, her actions reveal her to be a hypocrite, as she refuses to give her money to Rawdon after he marries the lower-class Becky. Although Miss Crawley’s fortune initially makes her influential in the family, it ultimately leaves her a prisoner in her own home, as her family members all try to control her during the final days of her illness.
Miss Crawley Quotes in Vanity Fair
The Vanity Fair quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Crawley or refer to Miss Crawley . 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 14
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‘Come as Lady Crawley, if you like,’ the Baronet said, grasping his crape hat. ‘There! will that zatusfy you? Come back and be my wife. Your vit vor't. Birth be hanged. You're as good a lady as ever I see. You've got more brains in your little vinger than any baronet's wife in the county. Will you come? Yes or no?’
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Chapter 34
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Lady Southdown, from her neighbouring house, reigned over the whole family—Pitt, Lady Jane, Miss Crawley, Briggs, Bowls, Firkin, and all. She pitilessly dosed them with her tracts and her medicine, she dismissed Creamer, she installed Rodgers, and soon stripped Miss Crawley of even the semblance of authority.
Chapter 41
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“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”
Chapter 61
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So there came one morning and sunrise when all the world got up and set about its various works and pleasures, with the exception of old John Sedley, who was not to fight with fortune, or to hope or scheme any more, but to go and take up a quiet and utterly unknown residence in a churchyard at Brompton by the side of his old wife.
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Miss Crawley Quotes in Vanity Fair
The Vanity Fair quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Crawley or refer to Miss Crawley . 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 14
Quotes
‘Come as Lady Crawley, if you like,’ the Baronet said, grasping his crape hat. ‘There! will that zatusfy you? Come back and be my wife. Your vit vor't. Birth be hanged. You're as good a lady as ever I see. You've got more brains in your little vinger than any baronet's wife in the county. Will you come? Yes or no?’
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 34
Quotes
Lady Southdown, from her neighbouring house, reigned over the whole family—Pitt, Lady Jane, Miss Crawley, Briggs, Bowls, Firkin, and all. She pitilessly dosed them with her tracts and her medicine, she dismissed Creamer, she installed Rodgers, and soon stripped Miss Crawley of even the semblance of authority.
Chapter 41
Quotes
“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”
Chapter 61
Quotes
So there came one morning and sunrise when all the world got up and set about its various works and pleasures, with the exception of old John Sedley, who was not to fight with fortune, or to hope or scheme any more, but to go and take up a quiet and utterly unknown residence in a churchyard at Brompton by the side of his old wife.
