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Set in 1980s England, ''Possession'' is about a scholar, Roland Michell, who while working at the London Library finds letters that suggest a relationship between two Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel [=LaMotte=]. He gets in touch with a Professor in Lincoln, Maud Bailey, who specialises in Christabel's life and work, and together they begin their quest to prove that there was a relationship - but not without help, and competition, from other scholars who want their bit of credit.
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Set in 1980s England, ''Possession'' is about a scholar, Roland Michell, who while working researching details on the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash at the London Library finds letters that suggest a relationship between two Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash and fellow poet Christabel [=LaMotte=]. He gets in touch with a Professor in Lincoln, Maud Bailey, who specialises in Christabel's life and work, and together they begin their quest to prove that there was a relationship - but not without help, and competition, from other scholars who want their bit of credit.
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** Both Maud and Roland, she by a love affair that turned out nasty, he by his entire upbringing and misfortunes in employment. Blackadder is this as well, given his training at the hands of an egotistical Cambridge don who specialized in destroying the confidence of his students.
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** Both Maud and Roland, she by a love affair that turned out nasty, he by his entire upbringing and misfortunes in employment. Roland's boss Blackadder is this as well, given his training at the hands of an egotistical Cambridge don who specialized in destroying the confidence of his students.
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* TheEighties: Roland finds the drafts of Ash's letters in late 1986 and the novel finishes around the Great Storm of 1987.
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* TheEighties: Roland finds the drafts of Ash's letters in late 1986 and the novel finishes around amid the Great Storm of 1987.
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** Mortimer Cropper's great-grandmother was the prominent socialite, philanthropist, entrepreneur and [[SpookySeance Spiritualist medium]] Priscilla Penn Cropper.
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** Literary collector and opportunist Mortimer Cropper's great-grandmother was the prominent socialite, philanthropist, entrepreneur and [[SpookySeance Spiritualist medium]] Priscilla Penn Cropper.
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** A ShoutOut is given to Robert Dale Owen (D-IN), social reformer, feminist, advocate for free love and birth control, anti-slavery activist, co-founder of the New Harmony {{Commune}} and ardent Spiritualist. Cropper works at a university in Utah named after him.
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** A ShoutOut is given to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dale_Owen Robert Dale Owen Owen]] (D-IN), social reformer, feminist, advocate for free love and birth control, anti-slavery activist, co-founder of the New Harmony {{Commune}} and ardent Spiritualist. Cropper works at a university in Utah named after him.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], it being that kind of book).
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], important later -- it being that kind of book).
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* SecretDiary: Diaries figure prominently in this. Roland reads Crabb Robinson's to see what he said about the dinner party where Christabel and Randolph met. At Lincoln University Maud gives him Blanche's, initially a celebration of creative collaboration and happiness but descending into anxiety, anger, paranoia, and an abrupt stop. Ellen's is provided by her curator Beatrice Nest, who believes Ellen was not oblivious to what was going on and sees her as deliberately leaving hints to "baffle" future readers, foreseeing future vultures picking over Randolph's stuff and hers. Christabel's Breton cousin Sabine de Kercoz kept one, initially to improve her writing so she could become a poet herself, but it ended up as a record of Christabel's pregnancy.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Roland, at the very end. The [[CrazyCatLady landlady's 17 cats]] (never allowed outside) have saturated Roland and Val's basement apartment in cat box odor. She's taken to hospital and the cats escape, whereupon Roland feeds them and arranges for their welfare.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Roland, at the very end. The [[CrazyCatLady landlady's 17 cats]] (never allowed outside) have saturated Roland and Val's basement apartment in cat box odor. She's injured in a fall and taken to hospital and the cats escape, whereupon Roland feeds them and arranges for their welfare.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: While it's widely considered that Ellen Ash was a regularly dull Victorian housewife, Beatrice Nest becomes convinced that she was far more shrewd that expected and wrote her diary with the intention to baffle its readers.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: While it's widely considered that Ellen Ash was a regularly dull Victorian housewife, Beatrice Nest becomes convinced that she was far more shrewd that than expected and wrote her diary with the intention to baffle its readers.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The poetry of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel [=LaMotte=].
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* ShowWithinAShow: The poetry of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel [=LaMotte=]. And one chapter is devoted to their secret tryst from Randolph's point of view.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], it being that kind of book).
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Maud is exquisite, an elf-like pale blonde, a definite disadvantage in her feminist literature field. Not only are men constantly trying to date her up, but her peers accuse her of growing and dyeing her hair that color to appeal to men. She shaves her head or wears a severe close-cropped cut for a while. Then she takes a lover, Fergus Wolff, who encourages her to let it grow -- specifically he prances around naked and pointedly quotes Yeats' "Your Yellow Hair" at her, reminding her that it's a depiction of a BS attitude that she should not fall victim to. So she grows her hair out and ties it up in tight braids and wraps it in a scarf (with an ornamental fastening that becomes a [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Pin]], it being that kind of book).
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* {{Diary}}: The diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crabb_Robinson a real person]], a journalist, attorney and diarist/memoirist), Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover and Sabine de Kercoz are nested within the novel
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* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: Maud is Christabel's great-great-great-grand-niece.]]
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* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: Maud is Christabel's great-great-great-grand-niece.great-great-great-grand-daughter.]]
