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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