Glorvina, Lady, heroine of The Wild Irish Girl (1801), a novel by Sidney Owenson, afterwards Lady Morgan. Glorvina is the daughter of the Prince of Inismore, one of the ancient Irish nobility. A gentlemanly stranger, hurt by a fall, is taken into her home and the young people fall in love. Glorvina is bound by an engagement to an elderly English nobleman, though bound only by gratitude, and when it afterwards turns out that the young man is the son of the nobleman to whom she is affianced, the latter gallantly surrenders her. Gloucester, Earl of, father of Edgar and Edmund, in the episode which Shakespeare has taken from Sidney's story of the blind King of Paphlagonia in The Arcadia and woven into the texture of King Lear. Shakespeare found there the father, loving, kind-hearted, but suspicious, and weak in principle and in mind; the bastard, an ungrateful villain; the legitimate son, a model of filial affection; the attempt of his suspicious and deceived father to kill him; and even the loss of Gloucester's eyes, and his contrivance to commit suicide by getting his son to lead him to the verge of a cliff, whence he might cast himself down: all is there, the incidents, the personages, and their characters.-RICHARD GRANT WHITE. Gloucester, Richard, Duke of. See PLANTAGENET and RICHARD III. He is first called Gloucester in III Henry VI, iii, 2. Glover, Catharine, heroine of Scott's novel, The Fair Maid of Perth, universally acknowledged to be the most beautiful young woman of the city or its vicinity." Daughter of Simon, the old glover, she eventually becomes the bride of Henry Gow, known also as Henry Smith, the armorer. See CONACHAR. Glowry, Mr., the owner of Nightmare Abbey, in Peacock's novel of that name. 172 Gobseck Glubdubrib, in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), one of the imaginary islands visited by Gulliver. It was peopled by sorcerers who summoned up for his amusement the shades of people famous in the past. Travels (1726), a little girl nine years Glumdalclitch, in Swift's Gulliver's old and forty feet high, who had charge of Gulliver while he dwelt in Brobdingnag. Gobbo, Launcelot, in Shakespeare's comedy, The Merchant of Venice, a mixture of servant and buffoon who leaves Shylock's service for that of the Christian Bassanio. The scene with his father, Old Gobbo, in Act ii, 2, is a favorite bit of clownish humor greatly expanded in the usual performance by traditional "business " that has no warrant in the text. Gobseck, Esther Van, in Balzac's Grandeurs et Misères des Courtisanes and in other novels, the great grandniece of Jean Esther Van Gobseck. She early became a prostitute, like her mother. When she met Lucien de Rubempré each fell in love with the other. Lucien foolishly took her to the opera, where she was unmasked and insulted. Later, Jacques Collin, the powerful and dangerous protector of Lucien, saw and fell in love with her. He converted her to Catholicism and installed her in a suite of rooms. She was only allowed to take a promenade at night. Baron de Nucingen unearthed the mysterious beauty and by the power of money won her from Collin. By 1830 she owned a fine house in Rue St. George, which eclipsed that of any other courtesan. She died by suicide, all unknowing that she was heiress to seven million francs which had been left to her by her grand uncle. Gobseck, Jean Esther Van, a miser and usurer, is the titular hero of Balzac's Papa Gobseck and flits through the pages of Father Goriot, Casar Birotteau, etc. The son of a Jew and a Dutch woman, born in Antwerp in 1740, he travelled all over the world and finally settled in Paris. The accumulation of gold and the Godfrey of Bullogne 173 Goody Two-Shoes power won by gold were his only joy. | dandified officer whose outfit is ruined In Paris he became head centre of by a tremendous rainfall, so that, many businesses, establishing himself dirty and dishevelled, he is arrested on the Rue des Gres, where, arrayed by mistake for a deserter. in his dressing gown, he lived most sordidly despite his enormous wealth. Godfrey of Bullogne, the cheif character of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1575), and the title under which Edward Fairfax published (1600) his translation, in the Spenserian stanza. A version by Richard Carew had already appeared, in 1594, in the same measure, under the title of A Boke called Godfrai of Bulloign, an heroicale poem of S. Torquato Tasso, Englished by R. C. Godfrey of Boulogne (the modernized spelling) appears also in Walter Scott's romance, Count Robert of Paris. Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine, was proclaimed king of Jerusalem when the Crusaders temporarily conquered the Holy Land. Goneril, in Shakespeare's King Lear, one of the monarch's ungrateful daughters who, after he has been deposed, plots against her sister Regan, poisons her, and dies (v, 3). The monsters Goneril and Regan are gorgons rather than women, such as Shakespeare has nowhere else conceived. The in Regan's tongue there is a viperous hiss. aspect of Goneril can almost turn to stone; Goneril is the more formidable because the more incapable of any hatred which is not her sister's influence, but has an solid and four-square. Regan acts under venomousness of her own.-Dowden. author. eager Goodenough, Dr., in Thackeray's Arthur when dangerously ill of fever. Pendennis, the physician who attends He is mentioned in The Newcomes (ix, ixxx) and reappears in The AdvenGodiva, or Godgifu, a historical adviser of the Little Sister and of tures of Philip as the friend and character (about 1040-1080), wife of Philip, though he dislikes and disLeofric, first Earl of Mercia. Tenny- trusts Philip's father, Dr. Firmin. son makes her the heroine of a poem, The writing of Pendennis was interGodiva, a Tale of Coventry (1842), which is founded on a legend first rupted by the dangerous illness of its printed by Roger of Wendover in his attended him, refused to accept any Dr. John Elliotson, who Flores (1237) and later (1613) versi-fee from a literary man, as Dr. Goodfied by Drayton, Polyoblion, xiii. In enough refused if from Philip. When Tennyson's version Godiva begs her Pendennis was finished Thackeray husband to remit an oppressive tax dedicated the book to him. under which Coventry had grown restive. He heedlessly agreed on what he thought was the impossible condition that she should ride naked through the town at midday. She took him at his word (first giving notice that all doors and windows in the town should be closed and that no one should stir abroad that noon) and Sir Leofric kept his word. See WALSH: Curiosities of Popular Cus toms, p. 471. Goldtip, Spiffington, familiarly known as Spiffy," a social promoter in Laurence Oliphant's satirical novel, Picadilly (1870), who launches rich vulgarians into Mayfair. Golightly, in Kipling's story The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly in Plain Tales from the Hills, a fastidious and Goldsmith did much hackwork for Goody Two-Shoes, in a nursery tale of that name (1765) attributed has been used to only one shoe and is to Oliver Goldsmith. Little Margery that she shows them to everyone so tickled when presented with a pair "Two Shoes!" exclaiming Hence her nickname. It appeared anonymously from the press of Newberry. this publisher and the internal evihas a spontaneous and playful humor dence of style points to him. The book not often found in the work of provertisement and title-page are characfessional hackwriters. The very ad teristic: "We are desired to give notice that there is in the press, and speedily will be Gorboduc published, either by subscription or otherwise, as the public shall please to determine, the History of Little Goody Two Shoes, otherwise Mrs. Margery Two Shoes; with the means by which she acquired learning and wisdom, and, in consequence thereof, her estate; set forth at large for the benefit of those "Who from a state of rags and care; The name, at least, existed before Goldsmith's time. Charles Cotton in his burlesque, Journey to Ireland (1670), describes a dinner with the Mayor of Chester, when this colloquy occurs: Regan and Gonerie, but the parental victim, who is a retired grocer, is allowed no solace in the shape of a Cordelia. Gosling, Giles, in Walter Scott's Kenilworth, landlord of the Black Bear Inn, near Cumnor Place, where he lives with his daughter Cicely. Gotthelf, Jeremias, hero of Albert Bitzius's story, The Mirror of Peasants. He is a poor Swiss villager whose trust in Providence is finally rewarded. Bitzius subsequently used his hero's name as his own pseudonym. Gradasso, in Bojardo's Orlando Mistress mayoress complained that the din-Innamorato and Ariosto's Orlando ner was cold, she. "And all along of your fiddle faddle," quoth "Why then, Goody Two-Shoes, what if it be? Hold you, if you can, your tittle tattle," quoth he. Gorboduc, hero and title of the first English tragedy (1561) by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. Gorboduc was a semimythical king of Britain whose story, as told by the ancient chroniclers, is here closely followed. Succeeding to the crown shortly after Lear, he profited so little by that monarch's sorry example that during his life he divided his realm between two sons, Ferrex and Porrex. The princes soon fell into dissension; Porrex stabbed Ferrex and was himself slain by his mother, who preferred her first-born; and the people, rising in rebellion, dethroned Gorboduc and his consort and put both to death. Gordon, Lord George (1750-1793), the instigator of the famous "No Popery" riots in England in 1779, is a prominent character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1841), the hero of which enlists himself among the rioters. Goriot, Father, titular hero of Balzac's novel, Père Goriot (1835), the story of King Lear modernized and reduced from semi-barbaric royalty to the humdrum bourgeoisie of Paris. Mesdames de Restaud and de Nucingen are the representatives of Furioso, a boastful, arrogant yet valiant king of Sericana who invades France in a quest for the sword and horse of Rinaldo. His vassals who accompany him are all crowned kings but they dare not address him save on their knees. Gradgrind, Thomas, in Dickens's Hard Times (1854), a retired wholesale hardware merchant. "A man of realities; a man of facts and calculations; a man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over; Thomas Gradgrind, sir,-peremptorily Thomas, Thomas Gradgrind; with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication-table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic." So the author describes him and later makes him reveal himself in his advice to the teacher, Mr. M'Choakumchild: these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to facts, sir!" "Now, what I want is facts. Teach Græme, Roland, in Scott's historical romance, The Abbot (1820), a Granada foundling brought up as a page in the household of Sir Halbert Glendenning, Knight of Avenel. He is transferred to the service of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, then imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, and takes gallant part in the loyalist plot that frees her from captivity (1568). He marries his true love, Catharine Seyton, daughter of Lord Seyton and maid of honor to the queen, when it is discovered that he is the true heir to the barony of Arundel, and consequently her equal. Granada, Archbishop of, in Le Sage's Gil Blas (vii, 3), the prelate to whom the hero attaches himself as private secretary. The archbishop begs "whenever thou shalt perceive my pen smack of old age, and my genius flag, do not hesitate to tell me of it, for I mistrust my own judgment, as that may be biased by self-love." After an attack of apoplexy Gil Blas ventures to hint that his grace's last discourse" had not altogether all the energy of his former ones." The archbishop demurs. 'You are yet too young to make proper distinctions," he says; "know, child, that I never composed a better sermon. Go tell my treasurer to give you a hundred ducats. Adieu, Master Gil Blas; I wish you all manner of prosperity with a little more taste.' 44 Grandcourt, Harleigh, in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876), suitor for the hand of Gwendolen Harleth and subsequently her husband. Grandcourt, to whom Gwendolen sacrifices herself, is compared to a crab or a boaconstrictor slowly pinching its victim to death: to appeal to him for mercy would be as idle as to appeal to "a dangerous serpent ornamentally coiled on her arm.' He is a Tito in a further stage of development-with all better feelings atrophied, and enabled, by his fortune, to gratify his spite without exerting himself in intrigues. Like Tito, he suggests, to me at least, rather the cruel woman than the male autocrat. Some critic remarked, to George Eliot's annoyance, that the scenes between him and his parasite Lush showed the "imperious feminine, not the masculine character." She confronted herself by the statement that Bernal Osborne-a thorough man of the world-had commended these scenes as specially lifelike. I can, indeed, accept both views, for the distinction is rather too delicate for definite application. One feels, I think, that Grandcourt was drawn by a woman; but a sort of voluptuous enjoyment of malignant tyranny is unfortunately not confined to either sex.-LESLIE STEPHEN: George Eliot. Grandet, Eugenie, heroine of Balzac's novel of that name, was the only daughter of Felix Grandet, born 1796 at Saumar. Strictly raised by a pious and gentle mother and a miserly father, her life knew no other love than a platonic one for her cousin, Charles Grandet. He forgets her when away in the Indies, returning with a large fortune and a titled bride. Eugenie, now an orphan of thirty-one, gives her hand to the elderly Cruchot de Bonfours, who had sought it for nine years. Widowed at 36 and still a virgin she returns to the sombre paternal house at Saumar to devote the rest of her life to benevolence and charity. Grandet, Pere Felix, in Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, the father of the heroine, a portentous figure of concentrated avarice. 46 Grandison, Mrs. Caroline, in George Meredith's novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), a character thus described by the author: She was a colorless lady of an unequivocal character, living upon drugs, and governing her husband and the world from her sofa. Woolly Negroes blessed her name, and whiskered John Thomases deplored her weight." She had rapidly produced eight daughters, and felt the solemnity of woman's mission. A son was denied her. Her husband, quite unobjectionable gentleman, lost heart after the arrival of the eighth, and surrendered his mind to more frivolous pursuits. After that disappointing eighth she also lost heart and relapsed upon religion and little dogs.' Grandison, Charlotte, in Richardson's novel, Sir Charles Grandison (1754), a sister to the titular hero, sprightly and vivacious but curiously deficient in good manners. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, commenting on Charlotte's failure to distinguish between pert folly and humorbetween ill nature and spirit-says roundly that she should have been Grandison treated like a humorsome child and well whipped (see Dobson's Samuel Richardson, pp. 158-159). It has been suggested that Richardson borrowed certain of her traits from his friend and constant correspondent, Lady Bradshaigh. Certainly some of Charlotte's most individual expressions are to be found in that lady's letters, who, moreover, confesses to saucy freedoms and impertinences with which she "is too naturally 44 inclined to treat her best friends." Grandison, Sir Charles, hero of a novel of that name (1754) by Samuel Richardson, representing the author's ideal man. Sir Charles conquered his own generation but to-day the critic is inclined to dismiss him as a self-conscious prig- "the exponent of a courtesy which has more of buckram and punctilio than of genuine benevolence and propriety "(AUSTIN DOBSON). Taine flippantly suggested that he should be canonized and stuffed. Austin Dobson holds that there can be nothing in Johnson's suggestion, as reported in Miss Seward's Anecdotes (ii, 223), that Grandison was modelled on Mr. Robert Nelson of the Festivals and Fasts, who died in 1715. He is an ideal but so very, very tame that it is hard to justify his existence. He is too perfect to be of the slightest moral use to anybody. He has everything he wants, so that he has no temptation to be wicked; he is incapable of immorality, so that he is easily quit of all inducements to be vicious; he has no passions, so that he is superior to every sort of spiritual contest; he is monstrously clever, so that he has made up his mind about everything knowable and unknowable; he is excessively virtuous, so that he has made it up in the right direction. He is, as Mr. Leslie Stephen remarks, a tedious commentary on the truth of Mrs. Randon Crawley's acute reflection upon the moral effect of five thousand a year. He is only a pattern creature, because he has neither need nor opportunity, neither longing nor capacity to be anything else.-W. E. HENLEY: Views and Reviews, p. 219. Grantley, Archdeacon, in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and other novels. My archdeacon, who has been said to be lifelike, was the simple result of my moral consciousness. It was such as that, in my opinion, that an archdeacon should be-or, at any rate, would be with such advantages as an archdeacon might have possessed:and lo! an archdeacon was produced who has been declared by competent authorities to be an archdeacon to the very ground.TROLLOPE: Autobiography. Grantorto (It. Great Wrong), in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V, a personification of rebellion in general, rebellion of 1850. A huge giant who but more specifically of the Irish attempts to keep Irena (Ireland) out single combat and decapitated by Sir of her inheritance is finally beaten in Artegal. Anne Barnard's ballad, Auld Robin Gray, Auld Robin, hero of Lady Gray (1772), and of two sequels written many years later. novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray Gray, Dorian, hero of Oscar Wilde's (1891), a debauchee who carries his extremes. The record of his downfall love of pleasure to unmentionable and hideous while the sensualist himis kept by a portrait which grows old self preserves all his youthful beauty until a sudden collapse makes himself and his portrait contemporaries. ballad of that name (1792), a Scotch Gray, Duncan, in Robert Burns's peasant lad who, treated coldly by Maggie when he wooes her, takes her affected disdain too seriously so that she fell sick and was like to die until his eyes are opened and he wooes her back to life. The refrain is well known: Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Graziella, in Lamartine's story of that name, the heroine of a true episode in the author's youth when he was rusticating on the coast of Italy. Ingratiating himself with a fisherman's family, he was taken into their home and unwittingly fell in love with the daughter of the house. Her parents would betroth her to a wealthy cousin, but Graziella runs away in the night. The hero finds her under remarkable circumstances and restores her to her family, but she tears herself away and shortly after he hears of her death. Graziella of course was published as a romance, but Lamartine never imagined or invented romances. He lived them and then |