Possession (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: A. S. Byatt
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: The 1980’s, alternating with the 1870’s and 1880’s
- Setting: London, Lincolnshire, and North Yorkshire in England and the Breton coast in France
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Suicide, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, 1980’s, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Letter writing, London, Letters, Learning or scholarship, Research, Victorian era or Victorianism, Museums, Fables
- Locales: London, England, Yorkshire, England, Lincolnshire, England, Breton coast, France
Characters Discussed
Randolph Henry Ash, a famous Victorian poet. Both his art and his life reveal a man who discovers the life of the mind first and the love of his life much later. He has hidden stories to tell to whomever can enter into correspondence with him.
Christabel LaMotte, who lives a sheltered life as a single Victorian woman, first with her friend Blanche Glover and later in the attic of her sister’s home. Her art is not widely appreciated, suggesting gender attitudes that survive the Victorians and divide the modern researchers, who study them.
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