The Defiance of Frances Dickinson
A remarkable novel based on a true story of gaslighting, coercion and one woman’s fight for control of her own life in the 19th century
A remarkable novel based on a true story of gaslighting, coercion and one woman’s fight for control of her own life in the 19th century
By Ruth Wilson An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen’s novels. As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision…