Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 2001
The fairy Do-nothing was gorgeously dressed with a wreath of flaming gas round her head ... Her cheeks were rouged to the very eyes,--her teeth were set in gold, and her hair was of a most brilliant purple. The fairy Teach-all, who followed next, was simply dressed in white muslin, with bunches of natural flowers in her light brown hair, and she carried in her hand a few neat small books. (1) In reviewing Phantom Fortune, a novel based on a series of contrasts--nature, society: freedom, decorum; sublimity, materialism-a London Times critic wrote in 1884, "`Phantom Fortune' is in Miss Braddon...
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