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How to use your embroidery needle as a weapon in the war against the status quo

A single thread by Tracy Chevalier

June 7, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Women in the 1930s had very little say in what they could do with their lives. They were expected to get married, have children, take care of their parents. They were givers. The only power they could yield was through gossip, policing each other in case one of them dared step outside the boundaries set by the patriarchy. Violet is a 38 year old woman, single and without any real prospect for happiness as defined by those boundaries. She relocates away from her suffocating, tyrant […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Tracy Chevalier

The Book Omnivore's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Tracy Chevalier ·
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Women in science, 19th century edition

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

May 23, 2021 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

I’m on a roll with splendid historical fiction featuring strong female characters. What I didn’t know until I was about half-way through this novel is that Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures is based on real women in science about whom I’d never heard. I suppose I should say “real women on the outskirts of science” because, as females, they were barred from having a meaningful place in scientific discussions in 19th century England. Mary Anning, now recognized as the finder of the first known ichthyosaur skeleton […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 19th century, CBR13, Fossils, historical fiction, KimMiE", Tracy Chevalier

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 19th century, CBR13, Fossils, historical fiction, KimMiE", Tracy Chevalier ·
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Reader, this was an absolute delight

Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (editor)

December 31, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Reader, we all know how we feel about Jane Eyre. We also know how we feel about that fateful sentence: Reader, I married him. This collection of 21 stories, created to celebrate Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday in 2016 and written by an all-female team of authors, all have strong feelings on the matter as well, and these stories run the gamut from the reverent to the satirical. This collection is a jewelry box in your grandmother’s attic full of treasure and cheap pieces alike, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Audrey Niffenegger, charlotte bront, classic retelling, Elizabeth McCracken, emma donoghue, francine prose, jane eyre, short stories, Tessa Hadley, Tracy Chevalier

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Audrey Niffenegger, charlotte bront, classic retelling, Elizabeth McCracken, emma donoghue, francine prose, jane eyre, short stories, Tessa Hadley, Tracy Chevalier ·
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An Interesting Look at the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

December 13, 2019 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Falling Angels” tells the story of two families, the Colemans and the Waterhouses in the transition from the Victorian to the modern Edwardian era. The Colemans are not your typical family. Kitty Coleman is educated well read and not content to just be a wife and mother. In fact, she didn’t want to be mother in the first place. Kitty and Richard’s marriage is strained, at best. The Waterhouses are much more standard middle […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Tracy Chevalier

The Chancellor's CBR11 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Tracy Chevalier ·
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Innocence vs. experience and everything in between

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

March 30, 2019 by KimMiE" 1 Comment

Poetry lovers, or really anyone who has taken an introduction to English literature class, will recognize the title of this Tracy Chevalier novel as a line from the William Blake poem “The Tyger”: Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? “The Tyger” is probably the most famous poem in Blake’s classic poetry collection Songs of Innocence and Experience, first printed by Blake himself in 1789. In Burning Bright, Chevalier borrows heavily from […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: cbr11, English literature, historical fiction, KimMiE", Tracy Chevalier, William Blake

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: cbr11, English literature, historical fiction, KimMiE", Tracy Chevalier, William Blake ·
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Tragedy, hope, and women’s issues

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

September 2, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo entry Throwback Thursday. I read this novel many years ago at the recommendation of our Ms. Was (whether she remembers or not!), and it completely won me over. I know, everybody loves Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I do as well, but Falling Angels is still my Chevalier of choice. Bracketed by the funerals of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, the novel spans 9 years in the lives of two London families, the Colemans and the Waterhouses, as the world around […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Fiction, historical fiction, KimMiE", Throwback Thursday, Tracy Chevalier

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Fiction, historical fiction, KimMiE", Throwback Thursday, Tracy Chevalier ·
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