![]() ![]() I was reading a book by Jeffrey Masson called Against Therapy. ![]() "I wanted to write children’s fiction, but the MA course I subsequently took in creative writing at Lancashire was geared to adult writing, so I started Wildthorn then. "The first thing I did was to sign up for a short writing course and I remember getting onto the train feeling very depressed but coming back from the course completely ecstatic as I had discovered what I was looking for. "I wasn’t terribly happy at that time and decided to put my effort into something that I had always wanted to try, which was writing," she says. Eventually, she is able to assert her own character, wishes and lifestyle, including a love affair with another woman.Įagland, who is 57, decided to leave teaching after she turned 50 to focus on writing. As the story develops, we discover the mystery behind her incarceration and, through her experiences, we see Louisa grow into womanhood. She instead finds herself incarcerated in an asylum where she is given a different identity. The story begins with her journey to "Wildthorn", where Louisa believes that she is going to spend a few weeks acting as a companion to a young lady. The main character, Louisa Cosgrove, is a wilful child who announces as a teenager that she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps by becoming a doctor. Wildthorn, the debut novel from Jane Eagland, formerly a head of English at a grammar school in Lancashire, is set in the 1870s, at a time when the Victorian era was slowly changing into the modern. ![]()
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