HiStory meets Memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years apart In 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work: the biography of her dear friend Charlotte Bront .
Could this indomitable Victorian author rescue Nell\'s pursuit of love, family and a writing career? Lively, witty, and impossible to put down, The Victorian and the Romantic is a moving chronicle of two women each charting a way of life beyond the rules of her time..
Gaskell.
As her long-distance romance founders and her passion for academia never quite materializes, she is drawn to Mrs.
Gaskell knew she had reached the "tip-top point of her] life." In 2013, Nell Stevens is embarking on her Ph D--about the community of artists and writers living in Rome in the mid-19th century--and falling head over heels for a soulful American screenwriter in another city.
They could not be together--it would be an unthinkable breach of convention--but by his side and amidst that splendid circle, Mrs.
Seventeen years her junior, Norton was her one true love.
There she met a dazzling group of artists and writers, among them the American critic Charles Eliot Norton.
So, leaving her dull minister husband and dreary provincial city behind, she set off with her daughters to Rome.
Gaskell was keen to escape the reviews.
As publication loomed, Mrs.
HiStory meets Memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years apart In 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work: the biography of her dear friend Charlotte Bront
