Talk:Crampton Hodnet

Plot summary

That two of Miss Doggett's student protégés (Michael and Gabriel) see Francis and Barbara together isn't of all that much significance. It's one of a number of sightings, of which Edward Pettigrew's overhearing of the pair's confession of love in the British Museum seems more important.

Is Francis ever identified as a [R]eader (British a university lecturer of the highest grade below professor.)?

How is the word 'homely' being used? Snugglepuss (talk) 19:33, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't disagree with what you say about the sightings.

Don't have text available at the moment to check the Reader point. However it would be consistent with the air of disappointment and underachievement which hangs over Francis

I think the description of Jessie Morrow as being 'homely' should be changed. This is an Americanism. It would be better as 'apparently plain and insipid' or something like that.Sbishop (talk) 07:20, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Agree. In fact, just "plain" would do. Deb (talk) 07:37, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Definitely not 'insipid'. Where did that come from? 'Miss Morrow ... was a woman of definite personality.' I'm not keen on 'plain' either. Women do tend to be judged on their looks first and foremost, of course, but it's very dismissive. Stephen Latimer first sees 'a thin fair woman' with 'very bright eyes and such a high colour on her cheeks and lips that ... he wondered if it could be natural' (she has been experimenting with make-up). After the first evening he thinks of her as 'an amusing, sensible little woman'. Even a man who is used to having women throw themselves at him doesn't dismiss Miss Morrow as 'plain'. Snugglepuss (talk) 15:17, 17 July 2023 (UTC)