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Notes: Tom-All-Alone’s by Lynn Shepherd
Tom-All-Alone’s caused a lot of (positive) fuss when it came out earlier this year, but I don’t really have a good reason for not having read it before now, except that its association with Charles...
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Best of 2012: The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
The Pleasures of Men was one of the few books this year I actually bought of my own volition, having been too late for the review copies. It appealed to me so much that I wanted to read and review it...
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The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
Another great book by a graduate of and now lecturer at Royal Holloway (where I went). Must be something in the water… I’d been eyeing this book for a while on Amazon and GoodReads, and finally bought...
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Kipling and Trix by Mary Hamer
The premise for this novel is simple – that the story of Rudyard Kipling’s sister Trix is fascinating. Who even knew he had a sister, the blurb exclaims. Author Mary Hamer wrote a blog post for me...
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The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
Having recently read Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great and not having read My Last Duchess (Daisy Goodwin’s first novel), I was not sure what to expect with The Fortune Hunter. The...
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‘Alias Grace’ and the Concept of the Fallen Woman
Any reader of Victorian literature, or any student of the history of the period, will be aware of the concept of the fallen woman. If not, the Wikipedia page is a good place to start. It’s a...
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