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Of what evil, exactly, were Miss Kressel and Quint supposed to be guilty of in life? Undue familiarity with each other, and with others, especially the children, I understand. Not staying quietly within their place. But was that tantamount to true evil? Or was more supposed to have passed between them and the children?

Nola Tillman There's also an implication that they sexually molested the children, which I first thought as I read and then saw again on wikipedia:

'Poet and litera…moreThere's also an implication that they sexually molested the children, which I first thought as I read and then saw again on wikipedia:

'Poet and literary critic Craig Raine, in his essay "Sex in nineteenth-century literature", states quite categorically his belief that Victorian readers would have identified the two ghosts as child molesters'(less)

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deleted user lol so don't know if you fellows are still interested but theres this essay that goes into detail about it all: https://epublications.marquette.edu/c. ...more
Mar 31, 2019 05:00AM · flag

Roisin So that was the actual horror of the book, right? Because I thought it was mildly ghostly but then the female ghost shows up and this conversation hap ...more
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