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The Walworth Beauty Michele Roberts Bloomsbury Hardcover pages November While researching a book for the renowned social researcher Henry Mayhew in , Joseph Benson is given the address of exotic, dark-eyed Mrs. Dulcimer. Joseph wonders how this educated and eccentric black woman--who lets her rooms to prostitutes--landed in Southwark. Available in: Paperback. From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue, and Kate Atkinson. From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where histor.
The Walworth Beauty aims to show that Mayhew’s abstract notions of the representation of city life and its people are firmly situated in Victorian times, a time when white, middle class men held the reins of power and their perspective dominated intellectual and cultural life. The novel suggests that it has moved away from this perspective because the reader can see that it mirrors the writing of Mrs Dulcimer, the black woman in the novel. Victorian and modern-day England overlap in Michèle Robert’s The Walworth Beauty, a richly told ghost story set deep in one of London’s most historic neighborhoods and populated by an ex-policeman, a redundant academic and a mysterious landlady whose reach extends beyond the centuries. The Walworth Beauty by Michèle Roberts is set in the London district of Walworth, just south of the River Thames and part of the Borough of Southwark. It tells the story of Joseph Benson in and Madeleine in , years apart but experiencing so many similar things. Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer of English literature, as a result she moves to a garden flat in Apricot Place, Walworth.
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