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Title: Emma Brown by Clare Boylan, Charlotte Bronte ISBN: 0-670-03297-2 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The mystery of "Emma Pilgrim."
Comment: The first two chapters of this novel are the work of Charlotte Brontë (JANE EYRE). When Brontë died in 1855, she left behind a 20-page manuscript written after VILLETTE and before her marriage. It was her last piece of fiction (p. 436). In EMMA BROWN, Clare Boylan has used Brontë's fragment of a story as the starting point of her own Victorian novel, which tells the mysterious story of a young girl (Matilda Fitzgibbon), abandoned at a boarding school (Fuschia Lodge), and later entrusted to Boylan's narrator (Isabel Chalfont), before she returns to London's dirty, Dickensian streets (where she discovers her real name, Emma Brown) in search for her true identity and the mother who sold her to a gentleman for a guinea (p. 292). Matilda proves to be "no ordinary child." She is melodramatic and smart beyond her years, and when questioned about her past, says only, " I was sold like a farmyard creature. No one wants me. Only God may help me now" (p. 52). At the heart of Boylan's mystery, there is a startling secret about Victorian society.
It doesn't matter whether this is the novel Brontë ever actually intended to write. Boylan's novel will nevertheless appeal to readers (like me) who enjoy reading Victorian literature. (And, oh, how I love reading Victorian novels!) With compelling parallels to Dicken's character sketches and Michel Faber's more recent, THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE (2002), EMMA BROWN is really a novel about the underside of nineteenth-century England: homelessness and child prostitution in Victorian London. The result is a satisfying novel with all the pathos of Brontë, Dickens, or Hardy. Emma is a strange girl, with the ability not only to steal wallets, but to steal hearts as well (p. 215).
G. Merritt
Rating: 5
Summary: brontee revisited
Comment: It's like a journey back to the 19th century. Pure pleasure.
Rating: 4
Summary: pure literary joy!!!
Comment: Emma Brown is a story based on 20 pages of an unfinished manuscript of Charlotte Bronte. This author has created an amazing novel in that tradition that does not disappoint the reader. Emma Brown is the story of a young lost girl with a mysterious background that causes her great pain. The story weaves it's way through the discovery of who the child really is and where she came from. ALong the way Claire Boylan explores the life and love of a widow as well as a mysterious man -about- town character. The story is as wonderful as any Bronte novel, it never misses a beat. It is full of emotion and turmoil and draws you through the pathways of the lives of these intriguing individuals.
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Title: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0399151613 Publisher: Marian Wood Book Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant ISBN: 1400060737 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0525947671 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Brontë Myth by LUCASTA MILLER ISBN: 0375412778 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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