Interesting and very well-written, but drags in places, especially in the first part of the book. Less than the sum of its parts, unfortunately. A few things bothered me throughout the story: Lydia Templeton and Lewis Durrant are the main characters and are supposed to be crazy in love with e...
Epic. Brilliant fictional recreation of the lives of 3 great Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, Keats - and the women they were involved with - Byron's lovers Caroline Lamb and Augusta Leigh, Shelley's lover and wife Mary Godwin Shelley, and Keats' fiancee Fanny Brawne. The opening chapters also touch...
Wonderful book! Right up there with the best of Georgette Heyer (and the author owes a huge debt to Jane Austen). Caroline Fortune is, as her besotted suitor tells her at the end of the book, "the dearest, warmest, most generous and good-natured, amusing, entrancing and bewitchingly beautiful wom...
After learning her father is ruined, Caroline takes a position as companion to the horrible Mrs Catling. Caroline's job is comfortable - spacious accommodations, generous clothing allowance, delicious food, the opportunity to go out in society - but Mrs Catling is a vindictive, difficult and mean sp...
Had some funny scenes, but ultimately very slow moving - Got bored a few times. The plot was very predictable and and felt like a rip-off of Austen's Emma. While overall, Morgan is a good writer, a few times he tried experimenting with different styles and none of them worked IMO. Also, I had a hard...
Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/runaway84/passion-a-novel-of-the-romantic-poets-by-jude-morg/Passion is the third book I've read by Jude Morgan. Even though I've read Indiscretion and Charlotte and Emily, I still was fearful over Passion. Why? Well, because like the other two books I read, Pas...
well written, but just a bit too overarching for my tastes. By the time I got to the last couple, I was tired of poets and the ladies who long for them.
Charlotte and Emily (originally published as The Taste Sorrow) was a brilliant and beautiful novel. I am on such a Brontë high after finishing it. The novel opens with the death of the mother Maria Brontë in 1821 and ends with Charlotte's marriage to Arthur Nicholls in 1854. I'm thankful that the bo...
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