Possession (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Antonia Susan Drabble
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1825-1987
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Roland Mitchell, Maud Bailey, Randolph Henry Ash, Ellen Best Ash, Christabel Madeleine LaMotte, Blanche Glover, Val, James Blackadder, Mortimer Cropper, Leonora Stern, Fergus Wolff, Sir George Bailey, Lady Joan Bailey, Sabine Lucre De Charlotte de Kercoz, Raoll de Kercoz, Hildebrand Ash, Maia (may) thomasine Bailey
- 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
Author of four previous novels, A. S. Byatt was known primarily as acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble’s older sister before Possession won the Booker Prize, Great Britain’s most prestigious literary award, as well as the Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction award. Byatt’s earlier novels, The Shadow of a Sun (1964), The Game (1967), The Virgin in the Garden (1978), and Still Lfe (1985), received favorable reviews for their insights into the domestic lives of middle-class Britons. They have also been criticized for being too difficult and too...
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