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J. Travis
2000
2000
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Travis, J. (2000). Sexual evidence and the scope of injury: Willa Cather's A Lost Lady.
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Travis, J. “Sexual Evidence and the Scope of Injury: Willa Cather's A Lost Lady” (2000).
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Travis, J. Sexual Evidence and the Scope of Injury: Willa Cather's A Lost Lady. 2000.
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@article{j2000a,
title = {Sexual evidence and the scope of injury: Willa Cather's A Lost Lady},
year = {2000},
author = {Travis, J.}
}
Abstract
In Willa Cather's A Lost Lady (1923), the bridge onto the Forrester's property floods and is nearly destroyed the same night Mrs. Forrester reads in a Denver paper that her lover, Frank Ellinger, has married Constance Ogden. The right of way that invites visitors to the property throughout the novel is washing away, and Mrs. Forrester must trudge through mud and rain "up to a horse's belly" to leave Sweet Water for town (129). Marian Forrester makes her way to the law office of Niel Herbert in order to have one last "conversation" with her lover, a conversation that Niel cuts off by snapping the phone lines before their intercourse becomes too heated. The lovers' last "conversation" is hardly the "trespass" it once was according to the civil law action of criminal conversation, if only because Niel is able to interrupt the stormy evidence of
