![]() ![]() Roland confides in Maud about the letters he has discovered, and she becomes equally consumed by a desire to know what happened. A relationship between the two would be a significant discovery, as Ash has always been perceived as a happily married man, and Christabel (who never married, and lived with a female companion for an extended period) has been widely considered a lesbian. Maud allows him to look at some documents which offer small hints that a correspondence between Christabel and Ash may have taken place in 18. He travels to Lincoln to meet with Maud Bailey, a scholar who specializes in researching LaMotte. Working from what he knows of Ash, Roland develops a hypothesis that the woman addressed in the letters is Christabel LaMotte, a less well-known Victorian writer who has been recently rediscovered by feminist scholars. Roland is intrigued and steals the letters from the library without telling anyone he has found them. ![]() While looking through a book owned by Ash, he finds two drafts of letters addressed to an unknown woman whom Ash seems to have been struck by and sought to continue a conversation with. Roland Michell is a researcher who has recently completed his PhD studying the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, but now finds himself frustrated by the lack of a permanent academic job. ![]() The novel opens in the autumn of 1986 in London. ![]()
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