![]() ![]() Understood what danger she might be in, and later in life she makes a mistake Punished and judged those who had fallen foul of men’s selfish seductions.Įmmeline is punished throughout her life for the crime of another, she hadn’t The injustices and cruelties that existed for women and girls in a society that The reader’s anger for Emmeline builds gradually, Judith Rossner reveals ![]() Immediately compelling, Emmeline spans a period ofĪbout sixty years, though the majority of the story takes place in the 1840sĪnd 50s. It is also, devastatingly, largely a true story, based on the life of Emeline Bachelder Gurney. This novel Ellmann claims – and I absolutely agree – is a howl against the patriarchy. Yet it is that novel which made the author’s name. I haven’t read that earlier novel, which according to Lucy Ellmann in her afterword to this edition is not nearly so well written as Emmeline, calling it a sub-porn peep show. Emmeline is Persephone book number 123, reissued by Persephone in 2017, it’s an American historical novel first published in 1980, by the author of Looking for Mr Goodbar. ![]()
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