In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barbara Dryden <>
> >And also a representation - as you very rightly suggest - of maternal
> >selflessness - Mum works herself to death? So inducing pangs of reader-
> >guilt.
>
> Yes. I'd be glad if people could supply some examples here. I'm afraid my
> memory s
Diane wrote
Lying around on sofas stops being heroic and self-sacrificing and becomes
selfish and
manipulative.
Yes, but I think that's a fairly modern view. You could contrast 19th &
20th century attitudes here, perhaps. Yet we still have invalids
sympathetically spoken of - by EBD, for instanc
