'The novel's dark energies - concerned with histories of gender, property, desire, and institutionalization - carry it forth into our present moment. It remains indispensable reading' Claire Connolly from her preface to The Real Charlotte
In 1894, the London evening newspaper the St James's Gazette announced 'a real acquisition', a new novel from the publishers Ward and Downey. The Real Charlotte was the first collaborative success of many for Somerville and Ross, two Irish women who were second cousins, received as a fresh, original, and funny treatment of Irish life.
It tells the story of clever, greedy Charlotte Mullen, an Irish spinster, who takes in the beautiful Francie Fitzgerald.
But soon after there are crossed lines of desire, money and land, and the two women quickly become rivals.
- ISBN10 1529427886
- ISBN13 9781529427882
- Publish Date 21 November 2024
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Quercus Publishing
- Imprint riverrun
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 560
- Language English