Nudge, wink ... and yawn: an ambitious historical novel struggles to bring Swift's muse to life.(Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson )(Book review)

From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson Trudy J. Morgan-Cole Penguin Canada 422 pages, softcover ISBN 0143017683

Period novels populated with actual historical figures have perennially proved a tricky genre to pull off with any great originality, not least when the figures in question are eminent writers whose lives are well-documented public property and the plots little more than variations on familiar biographical themes. The inevitable nudge and wink component in the narrative line--our young heroine Jane fossicking around for a felicitous title for her new manuscript ("I ...

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