![]() ![]() There is a good reason for that, but those wicked women of the era were humans as well and deserve to be remembered as such, Lydia Robinson included. It was as fascinating as the rest of the novel.).Īustin breathes life into a figure I had never heard of, and into an era so many of us view as stiff and prudish. (Speaking of which: read the author’s note. Brontë’s Mistress is reminiscent of the novels of the Brontë sisters, but with a modern sentiment and enough subtlety that I needed to have it pointed out in the author’s note. Lydia is not always likable, but she is always compelling as a forty-something woman in the mid-nineteenth century. This is the question Finola Austin asks, and she more than delivers on the promise of a novel about a woman who never wrote one in defense of herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() What if she were more than a caricature, though? What if she were a living, breathing woman, with her own desires and failings. Finola Austin writes in her authors note, Brontë’s Mistress is a work of fiction, and she adds, I don’t pretend that it records what happened between Lydia and Branwell, but given. Most who have heard of her will know her as no more than a caricature made by Anne Brontë in a novel after a disastrous affair with Anne’s brother Branwell. Biographical Brontës Mistress: A Novel Audible Audiobook Unabridged Finola Austin (Author), Danielle Cohen (Narrator), & 1 more 146 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial A meticulously researched debut novel.In a word Juicy. You won’t find Lydia Robinson mentioned much in the historical record. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he’s also twenty-five to her forty-three. ![]()
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