Cornhill Magazine,  1 (1860), 385–402.

Lovel the Widower Ch. 4  [4/6]

[William M Thackeray]

Genre:

Novel, Serial

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Class


    Lady Baker suggests that an engagement between the governess Elizabeth Prior and Mr Drencher, who she describes as a 'low, vulgar [...] Sawbones' with 'dubious h's', is 'a very fitting match' (394–95).


Reprinted:

Thackeray 1860


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