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to Dr. Maud Bailey, an established modern LaMotte scholar and distant relative of LaMotte. Protective of LaMotte, Bailey is drawn into helping Michell with the unfolding mystery. The two scholars find more letters and evidence of a love affair between the poets (with evidence of a holiday together during which – they suspect – the relationship may have been consummated); they become obsessed with discovering the truth. At the same time, their own romantic lives – neither of which is satisfactory – develop, and they become romantically entwined in an echo of Ash and LaMotte. The stories of the two couples are told in parallel, and include letters and poetry by the poets.
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related to LaMotte's sister, as she has always believed, she is directly descended from LaMotte and Ash's illegitimate daughter. Maud is thus heir to the correspondence by the poets. Now that the original letters are in her possession, Roland Michell escapes the potential dire consequences of having stolen the original drafts from the library. He sees an academic career open up before him. Bailey, who has spent her adult life emotionally untouchable, sees possible future happiness with Michell.
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In an epilogue, Ash has an encounter with his daughter Maia in the countryside. Maia talks with Ash for a brief time. Ash makes her a crown of flowers, and asks for a lock of her hair. This lock of hair is the one buried with Ash which was discovered by the scholars, who believed it to be LaMotte’s.
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poet Randolph Henry Ash, which lead him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance. He secretly takes away the documents – a highly unprofessional act for a scholar – and begins to investigate. The trail leads him to Christabel LaMotte, a minor poet and contemporary of Ash, and
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warmth and wit" ... "Anyone and everything that falls under Byatt's gaze is a source of fun." Commenting on the invented 'historical' texts he said their "effect is dazzling – and similarly ludic erudition is on display throughout." ... "Yet more impressive are in excess of 1,700 lines of original
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strikes England, the interested modern characters come together at Ash's grave, where they intend to exhume documents buried with Ash by his wife, which they believe hold the final key to the mystery. They also uncover a lock of hair. Reading the documents, Maud Bailey learns that rather than being
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true centre is a big, red, beating heart. It's the warmth and spirit that Byatt has breathed into her characters rather than their cerebral pursuits that makes us care". Concluding, "There's real magic behind all the brainy trickery and an emotional journey on top of the academic quest. So I loved
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The revelation of an affair between Ash and LaMotte would make headlines and reputations in academia because of the prominence of the poets, and colleagues of Roland and Maud become competitors in the race to discover the truth, for all manner of motives. Ash's marriage is revealed to have been
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Fowles has said that the nineteenth-century narrator was assuming the omniscience of a god. I think rather the opposite is the case—this kind of fictive narrator can creep closer to the feelings and inner life of characters—as well as providing a Greek chorus—than any first-person mimicry. In
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unconsummated, although he loved and remained devoted to his wife. He and LaMotte had a short, passionate affair; it led to the suicide of LaMotte's companion (and possibly lover), Blanche Glover, and the secret birth of LaMotte's illegitimate daughter during a year spent in
251:'Possession' I used this kind of narrator deliberately three times in the historical narrative—always to tell what the historians and biographers of my fiction never discovered, always to heighten the reader's imaginative entry into the world of the text. 176:
highlights many of the major themes in the novel: questions of ownership and independence between lovers; the practice of collecting historically significant cultural artefacts; and the possession that biographers feel toward their subjects.
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The novel follows two modern-day academics as they research the paper trail around the previously unknown love life between famous fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte.
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is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight." Also "The most dazzling aspect of
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is set both in the present day and the Victorian era, contrasting the two time periods, as well as echoing similarities and satirising modern
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Wells, Lynn K. (Fall 2002). "Corso, Ricorso: Historical Repetition and Cultural Reflection in A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance".
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as the fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, respectively. The film differs considerably from the novel.
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poetry". "In short, the whole book is a gigantic tease – which is certainly satisfying on an intellectual level" but,
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The novel was also adapted as a radio play, serialised in 15 parts between 19 December 2011 and 6 January 2012, on
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by the same name in 2002, and a serialised radio play that ran from 2011 to 2012 on BBC Radio 4. In 2005
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and mating rituals. The structure of the novel incorporates many different styles, including fictional
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poets, Randolph Henry Ash (whose life and work are loosely based on those of the English poet
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Books of The Times; "When There Was Such a Thing as Romantic Love"
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is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century".
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Thus it is revealed that both the modern and historical characters
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and poetry, and uses these styles and other devices to explore the
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concerns of the authority of textual narratives. The title
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concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as
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The novel concerns the relationship between two fictional
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A. S. Byatt
Chatto & Windus
Random House
ISBN
978-0-7011-3260-6
A. S. Byatt
Booker Prize for Fiction
postmodern
historiographic metafiction
metafiction
academia
diary entries, letters
postmodern
feature film
Time Magazine
The Big Read
Victorian
Robert Browning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Christina Rossetti
A. S. Byatt
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman
London Library
Victorian
Brittany
Great Storm of 1987
Jay Parini
The New York Times

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