By Julia Darling
"Perhaps it is going to be alright, i presumed. maybe, whilst i am going to paintings, there'll be peace, and Theobald will cease leaping from foot to foot, and Eva will not be beautiful."
Gert Hardcastle leads a lifetime of isolation cataloguing the Egyptian artefacts at a northern museum – till the 1st Letter drops onto her table. That’s the day she meets ballroom-dancing, iris-eyed Eva, and her cautious, stilted life starts off to solve.
As Gert starts off her unusual courtship of Eva, she appears again on her eccentric, surreal upbringing – the rambling condo with its resident Victorian ghost, her unusual, telepathic dual, her father George together with his relations crocodile farm, and her appealing, neglectful mom Jean, whose letters proceed to disturb her peace.
Award-winning writer Julia Darling’s vintage story of the hunt for romance, identification and attractiveness is humorous, poignant and peculiar via turns, as Gert progressively learns that her trip to the long run needs to pass through the earlier.
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We silently corrected anomalous misspellings and typographical errors, and we modernized punctuation marks such as quotation marks and dashes. Invariably the transcription process generated textual slips, and while we have made every effort to catch these mistakes, we nonetheless regret any egregious corruptions in our edited reprints. xxxi Empire and the literature of sensation The Female Warrior P ublished in New York in 1843 by E. E. & G. Barclay, The Female Warrior is an example of a popular literary genre—the first-person account of a cross-dressed female soldier—that circulated in the United States as early as the Revolutionary War and continued through the Civil War.
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