![]() It’s a fascinating topic and was a trade ripe for the pickings if you were able to manipulate the dark arts with some form of sensation. I’ve read a few books now on Spiritualism during the Victorian era and beyond. ‘This is what her beautiful city has come to: the beau monde and the dandies have fled, leaving only the spinsters, the soot and the ghosts behind.’ More Dickens than Austen, with some Bram Stoker thrown in. This Bath is firmly wearing the effects of Industrialisation, its glamour faded, its inhabitants ground down. ![]() But this is not the Bath of Austen times. ![]() She writes with such a finely tuned atmosphere I was walking the streets of Victorian Bath alongside Agnes, all four senses alive with my surrounds. Her gothic horror tales of historical fiction are exactly my jam. There are few authors that astonish me with their imagination Laura Purcell sits among these few. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |