The Rowse system

ladyramkin2000 ladyramkin2000 at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 25 17:14:22 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 99386

The historian A.L. Rowse (who Carol will certainly know, because he 
detested Richard III) perfected a system for establishing his guesses 
as certainties.  He would state on Page X "It has been suggested that 
the Dark Lady of the Sonnets was Emilia Lanier".  Ten pages later, we 
get "There is a strong possibility that Emilia Lanier was the Dark 
Lady of the Sonnets".  Thirty pages on, he would conclude 
triumphantly "We have established that Emilia Lanier was the Dark 
Lady of the Sonnets".  
I think we are all guilty of doing this a bit, with our pet theories.
Fun, though...
Sylvia (still waiting to learn whether the term "Prank" is canon or 
fan-speak)





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