by Sharon Biggs Waller
August 5, 2015Full review is now up on Word Revel._____July 17, 2015Initial thoughts: Oh, how I absolutely adore this book! If anything, this surely counts to my very favourites this year and really, in general as well. It's well-researched and reflected the norms and expectations of the Edwardian e...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-sentence summary: While I love both ideas in this novel--a protagonist who wants to be an artist despite the fact that it's socially discouraged, and historical fiction about women's rights--the title of this book should have been A Ma...
11/9/14 ** Time for confessions: I became aware of the book at an Indiana SCBWI event, looked at it in the conference book store, and decided to check it out from the library. After hearing the author speak, I decided to buy it, and I'm glad I did. Yes, it's long. But I found the story very intere...
Overall I was not impressed by A Mad, Wicked Folly. I did not feel as though the writing was terribly strong or memorable. The same holds true for the main character, Victoria. She was seemingly advertised as a suffragist or at the very least a feminist, but she was in fact not. Victoria was often i...
Vicky would like to offer her apologies for having offended the more delicate sensibilities of the ton by posing nude for her art class, but she knows that she will do it again in a heartbeat if it meant she could continue her craft. Vicky wants more to life than just the splendid dresses and handso...
Wanting to read something in another time period and hearing so many rave reviews about this book, I picked it up for a rainy day read. And it was perfect. Plot: This story is in the 1900′s where women and beginning to fight for their rights in society. One thing about this plot is that it is fill...
The premise of A Mad, Wicked Folly is something I can get behind – a young woman trying to find her voice at a time when such a notion was unconscionable. I discovered immediately that the writing wasn't as strong as I'd prefer (frequently pulling me out of the story, which was jarring), but its ins...
I used to read a ton of historical fiction, and while these days it tends to be historical romance, either way, I've always loved being in 19th century England or France. Or early twentieth century America. I get the best of both here with early twentieth century England.I could impress upon you tha...
A Mad, Wicked Folly captured my interest from the first sentence: I never set out to pose nude. I didn’t, honestly. With this attention-grabbing confession, readers are introduced to Victoria Darling, an aspiring artist who truly takes her craft seriously. This defiance of social conventions and soc...
I never set out to pose nude. I didn’t, honestly. Oh, what was that? I'm sorry. Did your clothes accidentally fall off by themselves? Were you wearing the Emperor's New Clothes? Oh, wait, no. You took off your clothes to prove that you're the equal of all the male artists despite the fact that the t...
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