141
See my «Individual, Class, and Society in Fortunata y Jacinta», Galdós Studies II, ed. Robert J. Weber (London: Tamesis, 1974), 49-68.
142
José F. Montesinos, Galdós (Madrid, 1969), II, 123.
143
Ricardo Gullón, Técnicas de Galdós (Madrid, 1970) 107-108. The chapter on La de Bringas repeats many of the ideas previously expressed in Gullón's Introduction to his edition of La de Bringas (New Jersey, 1967).
144
This paper was accepted and in press before the publication of Roberto G. Sánchez's excellent article, «The Function of Dates and Deadlines in Galdós' La de Bringas», HR, Vol. 46, 1978, nr. 3, 299-311.
145
All page references are to Benito Pérez Galdós, Obras completas, edited by F. C. Sainz de Robles (Madrid, 1949), IV.
146
No specific date is given for the day on which the agreement is made but it is after 8 July when the «reinado de Golfín» begins (p. 1618).
147
For a discussion on the interview with Refugio see W. H. Shoemaker, «Galdós' Classical Scene in La de Bringas», Hispanic Review, 27 (1959), 423-34.
148
The different methods of payment of husband and wife are mentioned in J. E. Varey, «Francisco Bringas: nuestro buen Thiers», Anales Galdosianos, I (1966), 63-69.
149
Although Benina, the heroine of Misericordia ultimately embodies the spiritually triumphant state of tragedy transcended, she demonstrates, nevertheless, those positive qualities of imagination and strength which characterize the tragic heroic individual.
150
Quoted by Eric Bentley, The life of the drama, London, 1965, p. 40.