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The Daguerreotype: A Novel

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About the Book

The life of a woman in Victorian England was fraught with social restrictions and professional obstacles. And so Elizabeth Gow, young and ambitious, must give up a future of academic promise at a fashionable London seminary for women to travel to America with her father. All hope vanishes as she boards the ship that will carry her to an uncertain future in an unknown land. With an unerring ear for Victorian language and a sense of authenticity, Patrick Gregory takes Elizabeth from unsure girl on unfamiliar soil to resilient matriarch. The poignancy of her story lies in its commonality, with its usual share of youthful hopes and soaring ambitions, followed by the disillusionment and unexpected turns of fate. If the heroine's life ends in obscurity, it nonetheless acquires a certain nobility through her persistent efforts to cling to the remnants of her youthful ideals. Brimming with old-fashioned realism, the book recalls the work of Willa Cather and Sherwood Anderson, but with a romantic and pensive edge. What Elizabeth left behind, the ruin of her young dreams, haunts the pages of this book no less than her later, earnest attempts to find meaning in her life.

About the Author :
Patrick Gregory, formerly a book editor in New York and Boston, now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Justina Gregory. This is his first novel.

Review :
This full-fledged first novel points, first, to the author's obvious understanding of the need for fluid, rather than obtrusive, use of history in fiction. It points, second, to the adjustments in social attitudes that European immigrants made when settling in America and settling into less-formal American customs. Readers quickly come to appreciate the correlation between Gregory's purposefully rich language and the florescent tone of the literature of the day. The time frame stretches--no suggestion here of any thinness of plot--from 1849 to 1929. The settings range from London to Philadelphia to the Wisconsin cities of Madison and Milwaukee to rural Iowa. The central thread is the life of Elizabeth Gow, who, as a young Englishwoman, accompanies her scholar father to America as he pursues better recognition of his erudition. Elizabeth's story is twofold: her coming-of-age and, after the early death of her father, her assumption of control over her future and fortunes--both aspects of the story leading to Elizabeth's transfiguration into an American.-- "Booklist"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780815608257
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Sub Title: A Novel
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 081560825X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr


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