Fingersmith - Author Sarah Waters
Fingersmith - Author Sarah Waters
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445 days ago
Sarah Waters on the echoes of 'sensation novels' in Fingersmith.
"Often, when I'm asked about the writing of Fingersmith, I say that I used the book as a way of mopping up the various juicy 19th-century titbits I hadn't been able to fit into my first two novels; and I'm only half joking. Working on Tipping the Velvet had given me a sense of the sort of lush, lesbian stories it might be possible to tease out of the Victorian setting, and Affinity, with its prison cells and séances, had only drawn me further into the darker, queerer institutions of 19th-century life. By the time I'd finished writing that book, I was hooked on the "sensation novels" of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu and Mary Elizabeth Braddon: novels whose pre-occupation with sex, crime and family scandals had once made them runaway bestsellers. Tentatively, I began to piece together a ..."
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"Often, when I'm asked about the writing of Fingersmith, I say that I used the book as a way of mopping up the various juicy 19th-century titbits I hadn't been able to fit into my first two novels; and I'm only half joking. Working on Tipping the Velvet had given me a sense of the sort of lush, lesbian stories it might be possible to tease out of the Victorian setting, and Affinity, with its prison cells and séances, had only drawn me further into the darker, queerer institutions of 19th-century life. By the time I'd finished writing that book, I was hooked on the "sensation novels" of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu and Mary Elizabeth Braddon: novels whose pre-occupation with sex, crime and family scandals had once made them runaway bestsellers. Tentatively, I began to piece together a ..."
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