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sickroom
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sick·room (skrm, -rm)
n.
A room occupied by a sick person.


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At the time separation of the sexes was a modern innovation, as were sickrooms and isolation cells for the mentally disturbed and the physically contagious.
Elly's 'nervous fever' and consequent delirium do not so much provide the space for the resolution of moral conflict traditionally found in the sickrooms of Victorian novels (30) as begin the double process by which she is divested of her former passionate discontent, while also, with the subsequent help of liberal Anglicanism, arriving at the possibility of a religion that embraces rather than spurns the world.
However, there used to be a quaint and quite unnecessary Victorian ritual of removing the house plants from sickrooms at night, lest they compete with the invalid for air.
 
 
 
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