6/9/2023 0 Comments Sara waters fingersmithThe fictional daughter embracing the writer of erotic potboilers.The conclusion is rather disturbing, since we have to assume Maud Lilly will do the right thing. Sucksby comforted by her fictional daughter. The role of the will in the melodrama of the time. Characters modeled on characters from Victorian fiction trying to con characters modeled from Victorian fiction. Illiteracy seems to represent lost innocence and the library comes across as a form of exploitation. I suspect the Victorian element may be based more on the author’s reading of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the Brontes than on deep study of the times, but then the metaphor of the book is clearly part of the novel’s atmosphere. The book as a whole is a clever Victorian pastiche. There is an actual call out to Dickens’s Oliver Twist late in narrative. Pleasantly surprised when it deviated from the plot of the movie. This novel had been sitting on my shelves for many years like a number of other reviewers, I picked it up after seeing (and liking) the recent Korean film The Handmaiden.
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