Elizabeth Taylor's novel Angel is yet another book that unexpectedly contained enough material of interest to inspire a whole string of articles.
I intended to check her other works some time in the hope of finding some more quotable material. After learning that references to Jane Austen and Jane Eyre can be detected in her second novel Palladian (1946), I decided to investigate.
I found something that deserves to be highlighted:
“Fantasy can be damaging. Reality can't hold a candle to it; everyday life doesn't stand a chance.”
This immediately reminded me of something that Rachel Ferguson said in her novel The Brontës Went to Woolworths, which also inspired a whole string of articles:
“Three years ago I was proposed to. I couldn’t accept the man, much as I liked him, because I was in love with Sherlock Holmes. For Holmes and his personality and brain I had a force of feeling which, for the time, converted living men to shadows.”
The real man who made the proposal certainly didn't stand a chance when compared with Sherlock Holmes!
The article about books versus real life is also relevant to this topic.
The quoted extract is the only material of interest that I could find in Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian.
