... circumstances.’’²⁷Following the example of the Preston masters and the advice of hismother, Thornton, too, ‘‘import[s]’’ (e.g., , , , ) Irish – butnot English – women and men to take the place of the ... aspects of land tenuresubject to the play of capitalism and the market,’’ while another histor-ian concurs that ‘ the famine opened the way for the application to the Allegories of Union ... to the manner and bearing of ‘ the most desperate’’ Boucher, the only member of the angry crowd whom Margaret actually knows by name. In his rage and torpor, as in the lowness and apathy of the...