Possession (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Antonia Susan Drabble
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
Randolph Henry Ash is thought to have been a dour, humorless Victorian gentleman and Christabel LaMotte to have lived isolated from the world with her friend Blanche Glover. Finding that their placid lives were interrupted by a passionate affair leads to a reinterpretation of their poetry and a dispute over the ownership of their love letters discovered by scholars Roland Michell and Maud Bailey. Roland and Maud spend months traveling about England and France assembling the scattered pieces of the puzzle. Their own romantic relationship develops even more slowly than that of their...
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