Tag Archives: Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters, “Tipping the Velvet”

Posted on May 28, 2011 by carolwallace

This post feels to me like too little, too late — I finished Tipping the Velvet last week but have been traveling around California promoting my own historical novel, Leaving Van Gogh. So a wait for a delayed flight in … Continue reading →

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Sarah Waters, “Fingersmith”

Posted on February 22, 2011 by carolwallace

“‘If you might only hear yourself! Terrible plots? Laughing villains? Stolen fortunes and girls made out to be mad? The stuff of lurid fiction! We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been … Continue reading →

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Sarah Waters, “The Little Stranger”

Posted on June 8, 2009 by carolwallace

Why is this title sinister? Maybe it’s the combination of ideas: “stranger” always connotes something potentially menacing, and when you add the diminutive you tip over into the creepy. Then you fabricate a decaying English country house, a self-deceiving narrator, … Continue reading →

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