![]() At first her mother’s coquetry is abhorrent to Faith, but she learns to appreciate her mother’s high intelligence. ![]() Message: a woman musn’t be too clever.įaith observes that women “expand into the space left by men.” Various women maneuver differently, “without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or like knives.” Faith’s mother, pretty and clever in the ways of women-who-know-their-place, stakes her claim in the pecking order of the local caste, surviving on her good looks-unfolding as a flower to impressive results. When he balks and threatens to stop speaking, she timidly asks, Is that the right word? Due to her timidity he can continue. Speaking to a doctor who measures his patients’ heads, Faith remarks, Oh, you’re a cranionimist. Faith, 14 years old, soon-to-be a woman, must feign ignorance in order to discuss natural science. Frances Hardenge sets The Lie Tree in Victorian England, amidst the argument of God vs. ![]()
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