Other Fiction Jolly, Emily: Bond and free Vol 3. v1. 20 Jan 2016

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Emily Jolly (1834–1917): Emily Jolly was born Margate, the elder daughter of Thomas Jolly, the one-time mayor of Bath. (Her brother William Cracknell Jolly also served a term as mayor.) As a young woman she began writing fiction, beginning with "A Wife's Story" first published in Dickens's Household Words in 1855. She followed with nearly a dozen novels. In the 1870s, Jolly gave up writing fiction. She never married and lived for twenty years with Emily Dobell, the widow of the poet Sydney Dobell (d. 1874). Jolly edited a life and letters of the poet in 1878. After Dobell's death in 1900, she moved to Dorset where she died in 1917.

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Wilfred could in no way clear himself to himself. It is true that, on that fatal morning, he had been surprised by the temptation of sudden certainty of Felicia’s love for him—that his passions had then escaped from his control, and a kind of frenzy had possessed him; but he knew to how many minor temptations he had voluntarily yielded—how many voluntary steps had led up to the involuntary climax.
He had only become the slave of overmastering passion after repeated and voluntary submission to a resistible tyranny.

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