Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Midweek Review

the Victorian and the romantic: a memoir, a love story and a friendship across time
by Nell Stevens
Publication Date - August 7, 2018
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Nell Stevens spent the time writing her Ph.D. immersed in the life of Elizabeth Gaskell and her famous artistic friends in Rome while also juggling an intense long distance relationship.  In this memoir, she toggles between her own life a this time and imagined conversations with Gaskell.  I enjoyed the memoir portions of this book much more than the episodes featuring Gaskell and her friends, so I sometimes skimmed those chapters.  I think that Stevens is an excellent memoirist and I am definitely interested in picking up her earlier book.  I received a digital ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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