The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: John Fowles
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: 1867-1869
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory, Metafiction, Frame story
- Subjects: Freedom, Voyages, Tradition, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Imagination, Mysteries, Victorian era or Victorianism, Biology or biologists
- Locales: London, England, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Places Discussed
*Lyme Regis. Old Dorset town on the English Channel. Its manners are old-fashioned, just the place for a conventional and traditional courtship. The novel opens on the Cobb, an ancient breakwater along the shoreline. There Charles Smithson and his intended bride, Ernestina Freeman, see the French lieutenant’s woman, Sarah Woodruff, staring longingly out to sea, evidently trying to find something more than Lyme can provide. Charles lives at the White Lion Hotel (now the Royal Lion Hotel) on Broad Street. Ernestina stays with her aunt a few yards to the north...
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