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Review: ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles

By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Thursday, December 9, 2010

Title: Author: John Fowles Published: Pan Books, 1987, pp. 399.  Originally published 1969. Genre: Historical fiction Blurb:In this contemporary, Victorian-style novel Charles Smithson, a nineteenth-century gentleman with glimmerings of twentieth-century perceptions, falls in love with enigmatic Sarah Woodruff, who has been jilted by a French lover.  (Goodreads.com) When, where and why: I think my mother [...]