Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.