Madeleine's

Madeleine's hangover, which opens the book, caused me to flash back with such immediacy that I wondered if '80s hangovers weren't of a particular sort.

Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012

Professor Zipperstein teaches Madeleine's Semiotics seminar as part of his mid-life crisis.

Daniel Kessel: The Marriage Plot -- An Ordinary Year in the Life of Three Liberal Arts Graduates? Daniel Kessel 2012

Madeleine's second suitor is a classmate named Mitchell Grammaticus, who is also struggling between the traditional and the modern.

Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

Madeleine's hangover, which opens the book, caused me to flash back with such immediacy that I wondered if '80s hangovers weren't of a particular sort.

Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012

Madeleine's hangover, which opens the book, caused me to flash back with such immediacy that I wondered if '80s hangovers weren't of a particular sort.

Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012

More practically, Madeleine's books are a clue, soon confirmed, that she is an English major with a focus on Victorian studies.

Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

One of Madeleine's professors argues that gender equality was bad for the novel, because it robbed novelists of a major plot device—the question of whether or not the hero and heroine will marry.

Nine Years After 'Middlesex' Alexandra Alter 2011

I started writing her story and somewhere around there I came to the line that's in "The Marriage Plot," which was, "Madeleine's love troubles began at a time when the French theory she was reading deconstructed the very notion of love."

Nine Years After 'Middlesex' Alexandra Alter 2011

Mr. Marshall asked about Madeleine's representation, then suggested she read Roald Dahl's "The BFG," which the pair is hoping to turn into a movie very soon.

Dining Out With Britain's Emergent Equine Marshall Heyman 2011

Madeleine's hangover, which opens the book, caused me to flash back with such immediacy that I wondered if '80s hangovers weren't of a particular sort.

Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012