by David Rocklin, Jacquelyn Mitchard (Introduction)
Loosely inspired by the life of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, The Luminist tells the story of Catherine Colebrook, a British woman stationed in Ceylon with her aging diplomat husband. Mourning the death of her son's twin, she becomes obsessed with the science of photography. Rocklin...
The inspiration for The Luminist was the life of Julia Margaret Cameron, a British photographic pioneer who lived from 1815 to 1879. David Rocklin uses understated and often haunting prose to tell the story of 1830s colonial Ceylon and Catherine Colebrook, a woman obsessed with the possibilities of...
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