I Say No
1884
I Say No, published in 1884 by Wilkie Collins, is a mystery novel set in a 19th-century boarding school for young ladies. The story follows Emily Brown, an orphan who navigates schoolgirl friendships and rivalries, particularly with the new student, Francine de Sor. Themes of identity, deception, and social class are explored as Emily seeks the truth surrounding her father's mysterious death. The novel is notable for its engaging narrative and character dynamics, reflecting the complexities of youth and education during the era.
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“If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.””
— Wilkie Collins
“He stood pledged to Emily to discover the man suspected of the murder of her father; and that man was”
— Wilkie Collins
“Almost every page that she turned over revealed the immovable obstacles set in her way by her sex and her age. Could she mix with the people, or visit the scenes, familiar to the experience of men (in fact and in fiction), who had traced the homicide to his hiding-place, and had marked him among his harmless fellow-creatures with the brand of Cain? No! A young girl following, or attempting to follow, that career, must reckon with insult and outrage”
— Wilkie Collins
“There is something monstrous, in a young girl declaring that it is her duty to pursue a murderer, and to bring him to justice! Don’t you see it yourself?””
— Wilkie Collins
“Constitutional laziness, in some young ladies, assumes an invalid character, and presents the interesting spectacle of perpetual convalescence. The doctor declared that the baths at St. Moritz had cured Miss Julia. Miss Julia declined to agree with the doctor””
— Wilkie Collins
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